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Donato Bramante
Donato Bramante

Donato Bramante (1444 – March 11, 1514) was an Italian architect, who introduced the Early Renaissance style to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his most famous design was St. Peter's Basilica. Events 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 The Basilica of Saint Peter (Basilica Sancti Petri officially known in Italian as the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as St

Urbino and Milan

Bramante was born in Casteldurante (now Urbania), under the name Donato di Pascussio d'Antonio, near Urbino: here, in the 1467 Luciano Laurana was adding to the Palazzo Ducale an arcaded courtyard and other features that seemed to have the true ring of a reborn antiquity to Federico da Montefeltro's ducal palace. For the 2000 film see Urbania (film Urbania is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Pesaro e Urbino in the Italian Urbino is a walled city in the Marche region in Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical Luciano Laurana (de la Vrana (c 1420 &ndash 1479 was a Dalmatian born Croatian architect and engineer who worked in Italy in the late 15th century The Ducal Palace (Palazzo Ducale is a Renaissance building in the Italian city of Urbino in the Marche. Federico da Montefeltro, also known as Federico III da Montefeltro ( Castello di Petroia, June 7, 1422 &ndash Ferrara, September

Bramante's architecture has eclipsed his painting skills: he knew the painters Melozzo da Forlì and Piero della Francesca well, who were interested in the rules of perspective and illusionistic features in Mantegna's painting. Melozzo da Forlì (c 1438 - November 8, 1494) was an Italian Renaissance painter near the Umbrian school, the first who practised Piero della Francesca (c 1412 &ndash October 12, 1492) was an Italian artist of the Early Renaissance. Perspective (from Latin perspicere to see through in the graphic arts such as drawing is an approximate representation on a flat surface (such as paper of an image as it is perceived Andrea Mantegna (c 1431 &ndash September 13, 1506) was an Italian Renaissance artist a student of Roman Archeology, and son in law of Around 1474, Bramante moved to Milan, a city with a deep Gothic architectural tradition, and built several churches in the new Antique style. Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. The Duke, Ludovico Sforza, made him virtually his court architect, beginning in 1476, with commissions that culminated in the famous trompe-l'oeil choir of the church of Santa Maria presso San Satiro (1482–1486). Ludovico Sforza Duke of Milan ( Ludovico il Moro, "The Moor" July 27, 1452 &ndash May 27, 1508) a member Trompe-l'œil, which can also be spelled without the hyphen in English ( French: "trick the eye" tʁɔ̃p lœj is an Art technique involving extremely Santa Maria presso San Satiro is a church of Milan. The church lies on the site of a primitive worship place erected by the archbishop Anspertus in Space was limited, and Bramante made a theatrical apse in bas-relief, combining the painterly arts of perspective with Roman details. APSE standing for Ada Programming Support Environment is a program or set of programs to support Software development in the Ada programming language. A bas-relief (baʁəljɛf in French; French for "low relief" derived from the Italian basso rilievo) or low relief is a Sculpture There is an octagonal sacristy, surmounted by a dome. A dome is a common structural element of Architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a Sphere.

In Milan, Bramante also built Santa Maria delle Grazie (1492-99); other early works include the cloisters of Sant'Ambrogio, Milan (1497–1498), and some other smaller constructions in Pavia and Legnano. Santa Maria delle Grazie is a famous church and convent in Milan, included in the UNESCO World Heritage sites list A cloister (from Latin claustrum) is a part of Cathedral, Monastic and Abbey architecture Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. Pavia (pronounced Pavìa,) the ancient Ticinum, is a town and Comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south Legnano is a town in the north-west of Lombardy, situated on the flat lands of the Po Valley between Milan and Lake Maggiore, straddling the little However, in 1499, with his Sforza patron driven from Milan by an invading French army, Bramante made his way to Rome, where he was already known to the powerful Cardinal Riario.

Career in Rome

In Rome, he was soon recognized by Cardinal Della Rovere, shortly to become Pope Julius II. Pope Julius II (5 December 1443 &ndash 21 February 1513 born Giuliano Della Rovere, was Pope from 1503 to 1513 For Julius, almost as if it were a trial piece on approval, Bramante designed one of the most harmonious buildings of the Renaissance: the Tempietto (1502, possibly later) of San Pietro in Montorio on the Janiculum. The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth" Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere San Pietro in Montorio is a church in Rome, which includes in its courtyard The Tempietto (a small commemorative martyrium) built by Donato Bramante San Pietro in Montorio is a church in Rome, which includes in its courtyard The Tempietto (a small commemorative martyrium) built by Donato Bramante Janiculum ( Gianicolo in Italian) is a hill in western Rome. Although the second-tallest hill (after Monte Mario) in the contemporary city of 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. Bramante planned to set it within a colonnaded courtyard to complete the scenery, but larger plans were afoot. Within a year of its completion, 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 Basilica of Saint Peter (Basilica Sancti Petri officially known in Italian as the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as St The cornerstone of the first of the great piers of the crossing was laid with ceremony on April 17, 1506. A crossing, in ecclesiastical architecture, is the junction of the four arms of a Cruciform (cross-shaped church Events 69 - After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. 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, Todi, influenced by Bramante's work) was fundamentally altered by the extension of the nave after his death in 1514. Todi is a town and Comune (municipality of the Province of Perugia ( Umbria) in central Italy. In Romanesque and Gothic Christian Abbey, Cathedral Basilica and church Architecture, the nave is the 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. Full descriptions of the elements of a Gothic floorplan are found at the entry Cathedral diagram. 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. The Basilica of Saint Peter (Basilica Sancti Petri officially known in Italian as the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as St )

Bramante also worked on several other commissions. Among his earliest works in Rome, before the Basilica's construction was under way, are the cloisters (1504) of Santa Maria della Pace near Piazza Navona. Piazza Navona is a City square in Rome, Italy. It follows the plan of an ancient Roman circus, the 1st century The handsome proportions give an air of great simplicity. The columns on the ground floor are complemented by those on the first floor, which alternate with smaller columns placed centrally over the lower arches. An arch is a structure that spans a space while supporting weight (e At the Vatican palace, he designed the Cortile del Belvedere, part of which was built during his lifetime. His inspiration was michelangelo. Bramante is also famous for his revolutionary design for the Palazzo Caprini in Rome. This palazzo, erected in the rione of Borgo, does not exist anymore. Rione (plural rioni) is the name given to a ward in several Italian cities the best-known of which is Rome. Borgo (sometimes called also I Borghi) is the 14th historic district ( Rione) of Rome. It was later owned by the artist Raphael, and since then has been known as the House of Raphael. Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone (in Italian Raffaello) (April 6 or March 28 1483 – April 6 1520 was an Italian painter and

Principal architectural works

Palazzo Caprini (also called: 'House of Raphael'), Rome, 1501–1502 (non-extant)

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