Bramante's Tempietto, the Roman Renaissance, and the Spanish Crown

This groundbreaking book situates Bramante's Tempietto at the center of an arts program that exalted Spain's quest for Christian hegemony.

Jack Freiberg (Author)

9781107042971, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 10 November 2014

350 pages, 144 b/w illus.
26.1 x 18.6 x 2.7 cm, 1.17 kg

'This book is a treasure trove of information on possible meanings of Bramante's Tempietto … Freiberg's research greatly strengthens earlier tentative suggestions for seeing the overall form of the Tempietto as alluding to both the Holy Sepulcher and to the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem …' Ian Campbell, Renaissance Quarterly

The Tempietto, the embodiment of the Renaissance mastery of classical architecture and its Christian reinvention, was also the pre-eminent commission of the Catholic kings, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel of Castile, in papal Rome. This groundbreaking book situates Bramante's time-honored memorial dedicated to Saint Peter and the origins of the Roman Catholic Church at the center of a coordinated program of the arts exalting Spain's leadership in the quest for Christian hegemony. The innovations in form and iconography that made the Tempietto an authoritative model for Western architecture were fortified in legacy monuments created by the popes in Rome and the kings in Spain from the later Renaissance to the present day. New photographs expressly taken for this study capture comprehensive views and focused details of this exemplar of Renaissance art and statecraft.

1. Jerusalem in Rome
2. Upon this rock
3. Bramante's Christian temple
4. Symbols of victory
5. History and prophecy
6. Papacy and crown.

Subject Areas: Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church [HRCC7], Church history [HRCC2], Religious buildings [AMN], History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600 [ACN]