tempietto by Bramante
More than four hundred years ago, in 1570, Andrea Palladio published his Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, one of the most influential treatises on architecture ever printed. It contains a number of woodcuts of ancient Roman buildings, as well as two illustrations of a small church by Bramante, known as the Tempietto, the 'little temple', which is the topic of my paper. It stands, rather awkwardly, in a courtyard apperently one size too small for it, next to the church of San Pietro in Montorio, on the top of the Janiculum Hill in Rome(plaatje van illustraties in Palladio + plaatje van waar het ligt op de berg.) Accompanying theses two woodcuts there is a brief explanation by Palladio of the reasons which led him to include a building, then less than 70 years old, among his plates otherwise dedicated to the works of antiquity. He says: VERGROTEN'Because the greatness of the Roman Empire began to decline, on account of the continual invasions of the Barbarians, Architectcure -like all other Arts and Sciences at that time- fell away from its earlier beauty and classical harmony (venusta), and got worse and worse.........But because all human things are in a perpetual flux.........it happened that, in the time of our fathers and gr
The existing Tempietto is easily described, for it is basically a very small, circular temple surrounded by an evenly-spaced colonnade of sixteen Doric columns, the whole building being raised above the level of the court by three shallow steps and a podium. The open cylinder of the peristyle surrounds the solid cylinder of the cella, the whole being completed by a hemispherical dome. (plaatje)+ (plaatje plan)inPeter Murray) The Tempietto is an attempt at reconciling Christian and humanist ideals, for its small centrally-planned form echoes the Early Christian martyria which had been erected not to serve as parish churches but to mark the place with holy associations. The Tempietto is thus a monument of exceptional artistic gravity and with no practical function, yet charged with a profound Christian significance. After reading Palladio's text above it is reasonable to suppose that Palladio intended to suggest that Bramante's Tempietto was on the same level of achievement as the ancient temples. A few years before the appearance of Palladio's book the Tempietto had been praised by Serlio in his treatise, and it is probably because of the publicity afforded by these two influential authors that the Temppietto became the standard example of High Renaissance architecture in most textbooks. ( foot note Serlio's treatise) Just below it is an inscription to the effect that Paul lll did some restoration in 1536, more than 20 years after Bramante's death, and another plaque at the base of the dome refers to Philip lll of Spain and is dated 1605. The building is therefore not in its pristine state, but it cannot have been changed very much.
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Approximate Word count = 2147
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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