Donato Bramante was an Italian architect and painter born in 1444 in Monte Asdrualdo, Urbino. He was one of the first High Renaissance architects and is renowned for his designs of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and Santa Maria presso San Satiro in Milan. Though few of his structures were completed, Bramante greatly influenced later architects through his innovative designs that combined symmetry, proportion and classical ideals.

1. Donato
Bramante

2. • Born at Monte
Asdruvaldo in
Urbino, on July 1444
• An architect and
painter
• The first High
Renaissance architect

3. Santa Maria presso San Satiro
Milan

4. Santa Maria presso San Satiro
Milan

5. Santa Maria delle Grazie (cloister and
apse); Milan,

6. Santa Maria delle Grazie (cloister and apse)

7. Palazzo Caprini “House of Raphael”,

8. Cortile del Belvedere

11. St. Peter's Basilica, Rome
• plan

12. St. Peter's Basilica, Rome

13. • His importance is due to the
way he inspired and influenced
successive architects rather
than through his original
buildings