Bramante was one of the first of the great High Renaissance architects, influencing numerous prominent architects of Rome such as Peruzzi and Sangallo. He is best known for reviving the architecture of classical antiquity, which had begun with the works of Alberti (Allsopp, 1959). Vasari reported that Bramante spent much of his time studying and sketching the buildings in Rome (Vasari, 1907). Born Donato di Angelo di Anthonio da Urbino/Pascuccio, it is speculated that he studied with Piero della Francesca and/or Andrea Mantegna. His first notable building was S. Maria Presso S. Satiro in Milan. In Rome, some of Bramante’s most celebrated and influential projects were for Pope Julius at the Vatican, where he designed the Cortile di S. Damaso and the Cortile del Belvedere. With an interest in centrally planned churches similar to Leonardo, he also designed a Greek cross plan for St. Peter’s with a vast central dome. His expressive building of the classical tradition was the T...