A BIT IN DEEP: BRAMANTE

The works of Bramante had a basic role in the development of Italian architecture.
The courtyard of Santa Maria della Pace is inspired by the Colosseum in the use of different orders: Doric , Ionic, and Composite.

In the courtyard of the Palace of the Chancellery he took the red marble columns from the theater of Pompey.
The little temple at San Pietro in Montorio is considered the ultimate expression of balance and harmony, its hemispherical dome, as high as the drum, for the proportions is inspired by the Pantheon.
With his appointment as the first architect Julius II commissioned the construction of the new St. Peter's Basilica, which Bramante began with decisiveness and energy, demolishing part of the Basilica of Constantine and earning the title of "Master Ruinante (=demolisher)."

In any case, his work influenced all architects who followed him, Raphael, Giuliano da Sangallo, Michelangelo, Maderno.
Bramante and Michelangelo cordially hated each other.

Michelangelo was planning the magnificent funerary monument for Pope Julius II, which was to be placed in St. Peter over the tomb of the apostle and is today in St. Peter in Vincoli, maybe he hoped his appointment as the first architect (had to wait until 1547 when he was over seventy), perhaps he didn’t forgive to Bramante to have introduced into the papal court Raphael, and in fact never hid his hatred for the archenemy.

Reciprocated.

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