Bramante, Tempietto발음듣기
Bramante, Tempietto
(jazzy music) Female: We're high up on a hill overlooking Rome, one of the seven hills of Rome, the Janiculum hill, in a small courtyard looking at Bramante's small but important building, the Tempietto.발음듣기
Female: Right, and in fact, if you go inside, there's a hole that marks the spot in the ground where the cross was placed.발음듣기
By marking the site, by making such a beautiful structure here, the Church is, in a way, saying the office of the Papacy goes back to St. Peter, the very first Pope who got that job from Christ himself.발음듣기
Male: It's interesting that it's Bramante who's designing this space because Bramante will also be one of the principle architects responsible for the other major site in Rome that is associated with St. Peter, the Basilica of St. Pietro in the Vatican, the site where Peter was buried.발음듣기
Both of these become markers, but this is a tiny little structure where, of course, St. Peter's is enormous.발음듣기
Female: This looks back to a kind of early Christian building called a martyria, or a marker of the site associated with an early Christian martyr.발음듣기
It's interesting that Bramante's borrowing both from that early Christian tradition but also borrowing directly from Antiquity.발음듣기
In fact, in Rome itself, if you go to the Forum you can see a small round temple to Vesta, which is not so dissimilar from this.발음듣기
Bramante's very consciously going back to those, He's consciously going back to the ancient the ancient Roman writer, Vitruvius, who wrote a great treatise on architecture and on correct proportions in architecture, which Bramante is really following here in the Tempietto.발음듣기
Male: Bramante really is in love with the ideal geometries of Antiquity, especially of ancient Greece.발음듣기
It's very much unlike the traditional cruciform church which is based on the ancient basilica.발음듣기
It's interesting because Bramante also used a kind of ideal geometry in the other building we were talking about, in St. Peter's Basilica, which was originally a perfect cross.발음듣기
This interest in pure geometric forms is something that we really see in the High Renaissance.발음듣기
Male: Let's talk about that relationship between ideal ancient geometry and the divine because I think that was really important at this moment that we call the High Renaissance.발음듣기
If you draw a circle, no matter how good an artist you are, it's always going to have some imperfections.발음듣기
But looking at that circle, we can be prompted to imagine something where there's no deviation, where there's no imperfection.발음듣기
So geometry was thought by the ancient Greeks, and again in the Renaissance, to be a vehicle by which we could imagine the perfection of heaven.발음듣기
Female: So Bramante, like many other artists of the High Renaissance, is really interested in this pure circular plan.발음듣기
Here, of course, the focus of this circle is that important site of the crucifixion of St. Peter.발음듣기
As we look up at this building, we have the steps from the stylobate that lead us up toward the circular colonnade, the cylinder or the drum, and then the dome on top.발음듣기
We really have this focus on a center and that would have been even more true if Bramante had designed the courtyard as he wanted to with a colonnade around it.발음듣기
Male: One can imagine the amplification if this was surrounded by yet another colonnade with a series of radial niches, that would have been a kind of conversation between the space around the building and the central structure itself that I think would have been unprecedented.발음듣기
All of those elements that you mentioned: the stylobate, the steps, the colonnade, and of course the dome, are all elements that come from Antiquity.발음듣기
We can see columns like this embedded in the side of the first level of the Colosseum where, unlike the Greek Doric order, these columns are not fluted.발음듣기
Female: And true to the Doric order, we see triglyphs and metopes in the frieze just above the columns.발음듣기
For instance, the Greeks and the Romans would not have, inside their colonnade, put plasters that pair with the columns.발음듣기
These were maximizing the radial quality by aligning the true columns with the false columns.발음듣기
In a way, this is the architectural equivalent of Michelangelo's figures in the Sistine Chapel; a real sense of the heroic, looking back to Classical Antiquity, and celebrating a kind of humanism.발음듣기
Male: There is a kind of self assurance in the High Renaissance; this idea that man can actually produce exemplars on earth of the perfection of the heavenly.발음듣기