Michelangelos foyer of the Laurentian Library was one of the earliest buildings to utilise Classical forms in a plastic and expressive manner. This dynamic quality was later to find its major expression in Michelangelos centrally planned St Peters, with its giant order, its rippling cornice and its upward-launching pointed dome. The dome of St Peters was to influence the building of churches for many centuries, including SantAndrea della Valle in Rome and St Pauls Cathedral, London, as well as the civic domes of many public buildings and the state capitals across America.