Tempietto
Item
- Title
- Tempietto
- Alternative Title
- Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio
- Creator
- Donato Bramante (Italian architect, 1444-1514)
- Drafter
- Charles Normand (French architect, designer, and engraver, 1765-1840)
- Louis Marie Normand (French engraver, 1789-1874)
- City
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Location
- Italy
- Building Creation Date
- begun 1502 (creation)
- Century
- 16th century
- Description
- 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.
- Techniques
- line drawings (drawings)
- Classification
- Architectural Documentation
- Documentation Type
- plans
- elevations
- details
- Style/Period
- Renaissance
- Cultural Context
- Italian
- Subject
- architectural exteriors
- saints
- Peter, the Apostle, Saint
- Source
- Letarouilly, Paul Marie. Edifices de Rome Moderne. Paris: A. Morel, 1868, 105.
- Access Rights
- Public Domain
- Related
- Part of San Pietro in Montorio
- creator
- Bramante, Donato
- Item sets
- Architecture Illustrations
Donato Bramante (Italian architect, 1444-1514), “Tempietto”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed May 5, 2025, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/19195