Building: Tempietto, S. Pietro in Montorio
Architect: Donato Bramante
Date: ca. 1502 - 1510 Exterior view through gate
Venice (Italy) ...
There he produced such works as the Tempietto (1502), a miniaturized classical tholos (round) temple set in the courtyard of San Pietro in Montorio; a series of private palaces including the so-called House of Raphael (destroyed in the 17th century); ...
His Tempietto (1502), an elegantly proportioned circular temple in the courtyard of San Pietro in Montorio, was one of the earliest Renaissance structures in Rome.
(French): The lower courses of a vault or arch which are laid horizontally.Tempietto(Italian, little temple): A small temple-like building, usually round and domed.Temple front
Brighton, Sussex ...
as early as the balustrade on the terrace at the Medici villa at Poggio a Caiano (ca 1480), and employing balustrades even in his reconstructions of antique structures, and, importantly, with having passed the motif to Bramante (his Tempietto, 1502) ...
 See also: Italian, Terra, Church, Ornament, Chapel
  
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