The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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256 WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY AUTOGRAPH SHEETS CATALOGUE 54

to more than one project. This is easy enough to dis-

cern in the case of sheets that contain studies for schemes

as different as, say, the DuomoApostlesand theBattle

of Cascina,which were under way concurrently, but it

is more difficult when Michelangelo was addressing dif-

ferent examples of related types of architecture, such as

centrally planned churches. In the later155 0sand early

15 6 0s, by which time Michelangelo’s work had become