Santa Maria della Pace
monastery, Rome, Italy
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Bramante
- In Donato Bramante: Roman period of Donato Bramante
…the monastery and cloister of Santa Maria della Pace (finished 1504). Bramante seems to have been engaged in 1502 to begin the small church known as the Tempietto in San Pietro in Montorio, on the site where St. Peter was said to have been crucified.
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Pietro da Cortona
- In Pietro da Cortona
…period were the facades of Santa Maria della Pace (1656–57)—perhaps his most ingenious conception—and Santa Maria in Via Lata in Rome (1658–62). He also produced designs for the modernization of the Pitti Palace and the east front of the Louvre in Paris (1664). He painted religious and mythological easel pictures…
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