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San Pietro in Montorio and the Tempietto

Discover San Pietro in Montorio and the Tempietto

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Checked against Wikipedia — The Tempietto del Bramante is a martyrium designed by Donato Bramante, completed around 1502 for the cloister of San Pietro in Montorio in Rome, to commemorate the site traditionally regarded as the location of Saint Peter's crucifixion, The Tempietto is considered a masterpiece of High Renaissance architecture, with scholars and architects noting Bramante's harmonious proportions, Bramante planned to surround the Tempietto with concentric rings of colonnades, the columns of which would have been radially aligned to those of the Tempietto, but this plan was never executed, The Tempietto is composed of slender Tuscan columns, the Tuscan being a form of the Doric order, The church of San Pietro in Montorio was rebuilt through the generous funding of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, with groundbreaking in 1481, and was consecrated in 1500 by Pope Alexander VI, The first chapel on the right of San Pietro in Montorio contains Sebastiano del Piombo's Flagellation and Transfiguration, painted between 1516 and 1524, The second chapel on the left of San Pietro in Montorio, the Raimondi Chapel of 1640, was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (October 2026).

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