Donato Bramante
Italian architect and painter (1444-1514) · Italy · Architects · Died at 70
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Something wrong?He gave Rome its High Renaissance spine. Bramante's plan for St. Peter's Basilica became the blueprint Michelangelo would execute, and his tiny Tempietto - a sanctuary marking Peter's martyrdom - announced a new architectural language in 1502.
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Born Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio in 1444, Bramante trained as both painter and architect before carrying Renaissance design north to Milan. The pivot came when Pope Julius II summoned him to Rome and commissioned the Tempietto at San Pietro in Montorio in 1502, a chapel over the site of Peter's execution that became the High Renaissance's opening salvo. Julius then handed him St. Peter's Basilica itself. Bramante's plan for the church - centralized, massive, bold - set the template that Michelangelo would later reshape but never abandon. He died in Rome on 11 April 1514, having redrawn the city's future in stone.
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