Some of the Tempietto’s Sacred Mysteries

The Tempietto is considered the first major architectural work of Donato Bramante (1444-1514), one of the most notorious and significant architects of the Italian Renaissance. However, it is way more significant than one may think.

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Donato Bramante, Tempietto (1502-1509), San Pietro Church, Rome, Italy.
Portrait of Donato Bramante (unknown date).
Tempietto inside the San Pietro Church, Photograph by Quinok (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Strafforello Gustavo, Illustration of the Tempietto in the courtyard of the San Pietro Church (1894) in ‘La patria, Geografia dell’Italia’.
Interior View, Photograph by Quinok (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Masaccio, The Crucifixion of the Apostle Peter and The Beheading of John the Baptist (1426), Gemäldegalerie.
Interior of the Tempietto, Painted Dome, Photograph by JTSH26 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Tempietto’s Crypt, Photograph by Peter1936F (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Illustration of the Tempietto (before 1816) in ‘Raccolta di vedute antiche e moderne della città di Roma e sue vicinanze’.
Andrea Palladio, Woodcut of Donato Bramante's Tempietto (1570) in ‘Quattro Libri dell'Architettura’.
Illustration of the Tempietto (early 20th century).
Léon Palustre, Tempietto's Schematic Plan (1892) in ‘The Architecture of the Renaissance’.
Sebastiano Serlio, Woodcut of Tempietto floor plan (1545), in the treatise ‘General Rules of Architecture’.
Basilica of St. Peter, Vatican City.