Donato Bramante (c.144-1514)
Tempietto, Rome (c.1502)
"Man of such talent in architecutre, who [...] bought back the good architecture which had been buried since the ancients" Sebastiano Serlio
"the most noble, vast, and beautiful edifice that had ever been constructed in modern times, or even in those of the ancients" Giorgio Vasari
Pantheon, Rome (c.118-128)
Filippo Brunelleschi (c.1377-1446)
"was of such exalted genius withal that we may truly declare him to have been given to us by the heaven, for the purpose of imparting a new spirit of architecture, which for hundreds of years had been lost" Giorgio Vasari
Santa Maria del Fiore (c.1294)
Compare and contrast the dome of Florence's cathedral by brunelleschi (1420-36) and Bramante's tempietto, san pietro in montorio, rome (1502)