Artists

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  Christ at the Column $AU 234.66 ~ 852.54
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  Man with a Broadsword $AU 208.58 ~ 2,696.89

Donato Bramante (c. 1444 Fermignano, near Urbino-1514 Rome), also called Donato d' Angelo or Donato da Urbino, is known primarily as the founder of the Italian High Renaissance style of architecture, but he is also famous as a painter. Indeed, his first training was a painter, possibly under the tutelage of masters from northern Italy. In the 1460s he worked at the court of Urvino, where he may have met Piero della Francesca. It was also here that Luciano Laurana introduced him to architecture. In addition, Bramante was influenced by the works of Andrea Mantegna, the sculptor Donatello (1386-1466) and the architect and art theoretician Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472). After the turn of the century he moved to Lombardy, then to Milan. At first he worked as a painter, then as an architect for Duke Sforza. In 1499 he went to Rome, entering the service of Pope Julius I (1443-1513) in 1503. Here, the constuction of St. Peter's Basilica began according to his designs. He succeeded in developing a completely new interpretation of antiquity in which harmony and clarity find an ideal expression. Bramante left important theoretical writings in addition to his artworks, which include The Armed Men, Pinacteca di Brera, Milan; and Heraclutus and Democritur, 1477, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.