Donato Bramante

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

Died

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.

Urbino and Milan

Bramante was born in Monte Asdrualdo (now Fermignano), under name Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio, near Urbino: here, in 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. Bramante's architecture has eclipsed his painting skills: he knew the painters Melozzo da Forl and Piero della Francesca well, who were interested in the rules of perspective and illusionistic features in Mantegna's painting. Around 1474, Bramante moved to Milan, a city with a deep Gothic architectural tradition, and built several churches in the new Antique style. 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 (14821486). Space was limited, and Bramante made a theatrical apse in bas-relief, combining the painterly arts of perspective with Roman details. There is an octagonal sacristy, surmounted by a dome. In Milan, Bramante also built the tribune of Santa Maria delle Grazie (149299); other early works include the Cloisters of Sant'Ambrogio, Milan (14971498), and some other constructions in Pavia and possibly Legnano. 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.

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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.

A draft for St Peter's superimposed over a plan of the ancient basilica

Bramante's presentation plan, as a Greek cross design; as reconstructed by Geymller

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The dome, as planned by Bramante

Main architectural works

Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan, ca. 14821486 Santa Maria delle Grazie (cloister and apse); Milan, 14921498 Palazzo Caprini (also known as Raphael's House), Rome, started around 1510 (demolished in the 17th century) The Tempietto, San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, 1502 Santa Maria della Pace (cloister); Rome, 1504 St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, design 1503, ground breaking, 1506 Cortile del Belvedere, Vatican City, Rome, 1506.

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.

External links
Donato Bramante Source [1] Information, Pictures & Documentaries about Donato.

References
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