Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain e
Tempietto del Bramante, San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, 1502, by Donato Bramante. This small temple marks the place where St. Peter was crucified.
The Temple of Vesta in Rome was the model for Bramante's Tempietto.
Palladio's engraving of Bramante's Tempietto
Plan of Bramante's Tempietto in Montorio
Florence Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower, is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Florence in Florence, Italy. Commenced in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design o
The 19th century Neo-Gothic façade
The Cathedral as depicted in the Codex Rustici of 1447
The Duomo, as if completed, in a fresco by Andrea di Bonaiuto, painted in the 1360s, before the commencement of the dome