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DONATO BRAMANTE  (monte Asdrualdo , Urbino 1444 - Rome 1514)
At Montefeltro's court in Urbino he had his pictorical formation , thanks to his teacher Piero della Francesca.

He worked between Milan (1479-1499) and Rome (1499-1514) . He represents a transition phase , which closes the architetonic experiences of the early Renaissance and creates new problems with a more modern conception of space and structure , proper of the '500 , to which it belongs not only chronogically.

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"Eraclito and Democrito" Panigarola House , Milan (1477).

"Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie" Milan (1479 -1499),

indefined date , but of the Milanese period.

"Temple of San Pietro in Montorio" Rome (1503).

Plant for the rebuilding of the "Basilica di San Pietro"Rome

(1506).