The plenitude of the classical architecture.

Yard of St. Damaso by Bramante; about 1505.

Before that Julio II acceded to the papacy and started his great construction enterprises with which he make greater Rome and the Vatican, the cristian temple model varies between the basilica plan and the centralized plan, such as happened with the Brunelleschi's church in Florencia, they still followed romanic or gotic standars adapted to the new classical language.

Cloister of  the  church  Santa Maria della Pace,
by Bramante; 1500-1504, Rome.

Studying of the ancient city's rocks and monuments, that Brunelleschi's architectonic language has already noticed, gave one more time the guide lines for to face the new constructions with which Julio II (1503-1513) wanted to give to Rome its roll as head of the new word. By the fabrics with what he to start the task -specially the new St. Peter's Basilica, his one's own sepulcher, the Vatican palace, the enrichment of the house of the popes of the Quattrocento, with the Raphael Rooms and the Sistine chapel, that was entrusted to Michelangelo-, the vigorous pontiff had the luck of finding to the architect that revitalized the old classic legacy: Donato Bramante. With him starting, in the Cinquecento's art, the fundamental phase of the Classicism architectonic.

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