Bramante D'Urbino, an Italian architect, whose real name was Donato Lazzari, born at Monte Asdrualdo, near Fumignano, in 1444, died in Rome in 1514. At an early age he was placed as pupil with Fra Bartolommeo, and several of his pictures are still preserved at Milan. Having gone to Rome, he executed a few frescoes, but his taste was wholly for architecture, and his study of the antiquities of the city confirmed this bias. His erection of the cloister of the convent della Pace obtained him the patronage of Pope Alexander VI., for whom he executed the Cancellaria, or palace of the chancery. Julius II. afterward employed him to draw plans for the Belvedere. He also built the oratory or temple in the cloister of San Pietro in Montorio. He was the author of the original design of St. Peter's, and had completed the four great piers that support the dome when he died. His plan was not adhered to by Michel Angelo, who completed the edifice. Bramante was the uncle of Raphael.

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