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ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE
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model which he would have done better to have reproduced more exactly.

San Pietro in Montorio, from Serlio, figure 22 from "Character of Renaissance Architecture"

Fig. 22.—San Pietro in Montorio, from Serlio.

But Bramante manifested his real powers in his project for the great church of St. Peter, his capital work, which, however, was never carried to completion. It is well known how Pope Julius II had conceived the idea of erecting a vast tomb for himself, and had employed Michael Angelo to prepare the