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Essay / Donato D'Angelo Bramante - 1086
Donato D'Angelo Bramante was born in 1444 and died in 1514. Bramante was an architect who introduced the High Renaissance style to (British) architecture. The Renaissance style gradually replaced the Gothic style of the late Middle Ages. This encouraged a revival of naturalism, seen in 15th-century Italian painting and sculpture, as well as classical forms and ornaments in architecture, such as the column and round arch, the tunnel vault and the dome (Western Architecture, 2011). Bramante initially trained as a painter before venturing into architecture and is considered the most renowned architect of his time (Garners). Bramante was strongly influenced by Flilippo Brunelleschi, Leon Battista Alberti and perhaps Leonardo (Garners). His early works in Milan included the presbytery of Sant'Ambrogio and the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. In Rome, Bramante was the principal planner of Pope Julius II's overall city reconstruction project (brit). Bramantes' architecture on the Tempietto, New St. Peter's, Santa Maria della Pace and the Cortile del Belvedere clearly shows the aesthetics associated with the High Renaissance. During Bramante's time, the most important type of artwork was based on humanistic values, which were based on ancient Roman models (garn). High Renaissance art originated in Florence in the early 15th century and later spread across most of the Italian peninsula; by the end of the 16th century, the new style spread throughout almost all of Europe, gradually replacing the late medieval (British) Gothic style. The Tempietto is an example of the style with which Bramante sculpted. The Tempietto is located on the Janiculum Hill overlooking the Vatican in Rome (Garner). The Tempietto owes its name to the middle of the paper. Art was mainly related to religion, while humanism deals with the humanistic part of our lives. After the Black Death, many people lost their faith, because people could not believe that God would punish them like this. The Renaissance was a period when the lives of Europeans focused on the natural world and the mundane existence of individuals and the humanities (Kleiner, 2010). The Black Death, as horrific as it was, helped set the stage for the flourishing of art and science. Renaissance itself means rebirth in Latin, which corresponds to a renewed interest in classical cultures (Kleiner, 2010). Humanism was more a code of civil conduct, a theory of education, and a scholarly discipline than a philosophical system. Italian humanists were primarily concerned with human values ββand interests, distinct but not opposed to otherworldly religious values ββ(Kleiner, 2010).