Tempietto

Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio

Donato Bramante (Italian architect, 1444-1514)

Charles Normand (French architect, designer, and engraver, 1765-1840)

Louis Marie Normand (French engraver, 1789-1874)

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Italy

begun 1502 (creation)

16th century

details, detail views

partial elevations

partial plans

The circular building, which stands in a courtyard next to S Pietro in Montorio, serves as a shrine marking the supposed site of St Peter's crucifixion

at its very centre is the hole reputedly for the cross, exposed in the crypt and also visible through an opening in the paved floor above. Despite its tiny size, the Tempietto is majestically conceived. The shrine is encircled by a ring of sixteen Doric columns raised on three steps, with an entablature and balustrade above

the upper level has a drum and a dome with a crowning finial (altered in 1605). Commissioned by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain.

line drawings (drawings)

Architectural Documentation

shrines

religious structures

plans

elevations

details

Renaissance

Italian

architectural exteriors

saints

Peter, the Apostle, Saint

Letarouilly, Paul Marie. Edifices de Rome Moderne. Paris: A. Morel, 1868, 105.

Public Domain

Part of San Pietro in Montorio

Bramante, Donato