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Donato Bramante
Donato Bramante
Donato Bramante Birth name Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio Born 1444 Fermignano, in present-day Italy 11 April 1514 (Aged about 70) Rome, in present-day Italy
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Nationality Italian Field Movement Works Architecture, Painting High Renaissance San Pietro in Montorio Christ at the column
Donato Bramante (1444 11 March 1514) was an Italian architect, who introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his plan for St. Peter's Basilica formed the basis of design executed by Michelangelo. His Tempietto (San Pietro in Montorio) marked the beginning of the High Renaissance in Rome (1502) when Alexander VI appointed him to build a sanctuary that allegedly marked the spot where Peter was crucified.
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Career in Rome
In Rome, he was soon recognized in Cardinal Della Rovere, shortly to become Pope Julius II. For Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile or possibly Julius II, Bramante designed one of the most harmonious buildings of the Renaissance: the Tempietto (1510) of San Pietro in Montorio on the Janiculum. Despite its small scale, the construction has all the rigorous proportions and symmetry of Classical structures, surrounded by slender Doric columns, surmounted by a dome. According to a later engraving by Sebastiano Serlio, Bramante planned to set it within a colonnaded courtyard. In November 1503, Julius engaged Bramante for the construction of the grandest European architectural commission of the 16th century, the complete rebuilding of St Peter's Basilica. The cornerstone of the first of the great piers of the crossing was laid with ceremony on 17 April 1506. Very few drawings by Bramante survive, though some by his assistants do, demonstrating the extent of the team which had been assembled. Bramante's vision for St Peter's, a centralized Greek cross plan that symbolized sublime perfection for him and his generation (compare Santa Maria della Consolazione at Todi, influenced by Bramante's work) was fundamentally altered by the extension of the nave after his death in 1514. Bramante's plan envisaged four great chapels filling the corner spaces between the equal transepts, each one capped with a smaller dome surrounding the great dome over the crossing. So Bramante's original plan was very much more Romano-Byzantine in its forms than the basilica that was actually built. (See St Peter's Basilica for further details.) Bramante also worked on several other commissions. Among his earliest works in Rome, before the Basilica's construction was under way, is the cloister (15001504) of Santa Maria della Pace near Piazza Navona. The handsome proportions give an air of great simplicity.
Donato Bramante
Bibliography
Ackerman, James (1964). The Cortile del Belvedere. London. Bruschi, Arnaldo (1977). Bramante. London. Evans, Robin (1995). The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries. Cambridge. Frommel, Christoph Luitpold (1973). Der Rmische Palastbau der Hochrenaissance. Tbingen. Frommel, Christoph Luitpold (2007). The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance. London. Lotz, Wolfgang (1996). Architecture in Italy 15001600. London. Heydenreich, Ludwig H. (1996). Architecture in Italy 14001500. London. Thoenes, Christof. Sostegno e Adornamento. Milan, 1998. Fortunato, Giuseppe (2010). "The role of architectural representation for the analysis of the built. The 3d survey of San Pietro in Montorio's temple in Rome". Acts of X Congreso Internacional expresin grphica aplicada a la edificacon, Alicante,Editorial Marfil", S.A.. ISBN978-84-268-1528-6.
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References
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