# Exterior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BRAMANTE, Donato]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary Bramante's Tempietto is in the courtyard of San Pietro in Montorio, believed to be the site of St Peter's martyrdom. The architect clearly worked from a historical typology: individual architectural elements such as columns, entablature, and vault acknowledge a debt to classical structures. The resulting centralized building represented a new type of Christian architecture. View the <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/support/plans/b/bramante/1archite/2/tempietto.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=400,height=600'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">ground plan</a> and <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/support/plans/b/bramante/1archite/2/tempietto1.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=400,height=600'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">section</a> of Tempietto. ## Related artworks - [Argus \(detail\)]() - [Argus]() - [Christ at the Column]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [General view]() - [General view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()