Donato Bramante (1444-1514)

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Palazzo Ducale.jpg (129193 bytes) Ducal Palace, Urbino, Luciano Laurana (and others) for Federigo da Montefeltre (c. 1464)

 

Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan, 1482-1494, attached to 9th century circular church in Via del Falcone 

Courtyards added to the Romanesque church of San Ambrogio

 

 

Tribuna, Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, 1492 
Sforza Mausoleum

Square at Vigevano, 1492 onwards, for Lodovico "il Moro" Sforza

Cloister, Santa Maria delle Pace, Rome, Donato Bramante, (1500)

S.Maria Della Pace.jpg (92597 bytes)  Santa Maria de lla pace.jpg (63547 bytes)

 

Tempietto in cloister of S. Pietro in Montorio, Donato Bramante (1502)

 Tempietto.jpg (77472 bytes)  tempieto.jpg (114569 bytes) Compare this building marking the site of St Peter's crucifixion to the long standing tradition of circular Heroons and Martyria.

 

St Peter's Basilica, Rome, Donato Bramante (begun 1505)

St Peter plan.jpg (54356 bytes)   St. Peters coin.jpg (88479 bytes) Medal recording Bramante's intentions for elevating his plan

 St. Peters.jpg (68407 bytes) Drawing showing Bramante's crossing under construction and the Tiburio designed by his which was erected temporarily to protect the tomb of St Peter.