Donato D'Angelo Bramante was born in 1444 and died in 1514. Bramante was an architect who introduced the High Renaissance style into architecture (brit). The Renaissance style gradually replaced the Gothic style of the late Middle Ages. It encouraged a revival of naturalism, seen in 15th-century Italian painting and sculpture, and of classical forms and ornamentation in architecture, such as the column and round arch, the tunnel vault, and the dome (Western Architecture, 2011). Bramante trained as a painter before dedicating himself to architecture and is considered one of the most renowned architects of his time (garners). Bramante was strongly influenced by Filippo Brunelleschi, Leon Battista Alberti and perhaps Leonardo (garners). His early works in Milan included the rectory of Sant'Ambrogio and the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. In Rome, Bramante was the principal designer of Pope Julius II's vast project for the reconstruction of the city (brit). Bramante's architecture on the Tempietto, Nuova San Pietro, Santa Maria della Pace and Cortile del Belvedere distinctly displays the aesthetics associated with the High Renaissance. During Bramante's period the most important type of artwork was based on humanistic values, which were on ancient Roman models (garn). High Renaissance art originated in Florence in the early 15th century and from there spread throughout much of the Italian peninsula; by the end of the 16th century the new style pervaded almost all of Europe, gradually replacing the Gothic style of the late Middle Ages (Brit). The Tempietto is an example of the style in which Bramante sculpted. The Tempietto is located on the Janiculum Hill overlooking the Vatican in Rome (garner). The Tempietto is called like this... in the center of the card......c art mainly had to do with religion, while humanism deals with the humanistic part of our lives. After the Black Death many people lost their faith, because they could not believe that God would punish them in that way. The Renaissance was a period in which the lives of Europeans focused on the natural world and the mundane existence of individuals and people (Kleiner,2010). The Black Death, as a horrific disease, helped lay the foundation for the flourishing of art and science. The Renaissance itself means rebirth in Latin, which meant a renewed interest in classical cultures (Kleiner, 2010). Humanism was more of a code of civil conduct, a theory of education, and an academic discipline than a philosophical system. Italian humanists were primarily concerned with human values and interests distinct from but not opposed to the otherworldly values of religions (Kleiner, 2010).
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