Cortile del Belvedere
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The Cortile del Belvedere was a major architectural work of the High Renaissance at the Vatican Palace in Rome. Designed by Donato Bramante from 1505 onward, its concept and details reverberated in co
A carousel in the Cortile del Belvedere, 1565: Étienne du Perac has exaggerated the vertical dimensions, but Bramante's sequence of monumental axially-planned stairs is visible.
View of the courtyard at dusk
Giovanni Antonio Dosio's drawing, about Bramante's building
Exedra in the Cortile della Pigna
Étienne Dupérac
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Étienne Dupérac was a French architect, painter, engraver, and garden designer. He is most well known for his topographical studies of Rome and its ruins in the late 16th century.
Remains of the Baths of Constantine in Rome, etching by Dupérac (c. 1575)
A view of the Villa d'Este by Dupérac (1575)