.:. art / the way we were
December 4, 2014 through March 22, 2015
8:30am-7:15pm, closed Mon, January 1, May 1, and December 25. Tickets sold till 35 minutes before closing time
slideshow .:.
At the turn between the 15th and the 16th century, Milan was a place to be. Da Vinci came to Milan in 1482, apparently five or six years after Donato
Bramante (1443/44 - 1514), an architect and painter from Urbino, had already moved here.
.:. The latter was nearly as crucial as Da Vinci in the history of Italian Renaissance. His drawings for St. Peter's in Rome inspired, and was followed by, Michelangelo. And in Rome Bramante would design one of the most breakthrough and harmonious buildings of those times: the Tempietto of San Pietro in Montorio (1510) on the Janiculum.
.:. In Milan, Bramante built the deceptive perspective inside
Santa Maria presso San Satiro, and the apse of
Santa Maria delle Grazie. But he was also very influential as far as painting was concerned. This exhibition explains why and how.