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The modern 'Bramante' spiral stairs of the Vatican Museums, designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932 The modern double helix staircase, also in the Pio-Clementine Museum, and commonly referred to as the "Bramante Staircase", was designed by Giuseppe Momo, sculpted by Antonio Maraini and realized by the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry in 1932 and was inspired by the original Bramante Staircase.
Giovanni Antonio Dosio's drawing, about Bramante's building. Julius commissioned Bramante to link the Vatican Palace with the Villa Belvedere. Bramante's design is commemorated in a fresco at the Castel Sant'Angelo; he regularized the slope as a set of terraces, linked by rigorously symmetrical stairs on the central longitudinal axis, to create ...
The Bramante Staircase is a double spiral staircase designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932. The staircase has two parts, a double helix, and is of shallow incline, being a stepped ramp rather than a true staircase. It encircles the outer wall of a stairwell about fifteen metres (49 feet) wide and with a clear space at the centre.
The Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art is a collection of paintings, graphic art and sculptures in the Vatican Museums.. It occupies 55 rooms: the Borgia Apartment (apartment of Pope Alexander VI) on the first floor of the Apostolic Palace, the two floors of the Salette Borgia, a series of rooms below the Sistine Chapel, and a series of rooms on the ground floor.
Bramante Staircase; Domus Sanctae Marthae; Fountains of St. Peter's Square; Gardens of Vatican City; Geography of Vatican City; Gregorian Tower; Mater Ecclesiae (monastery) Monument to the Royal Stuarts; Palace of the Holy Office; Palazzi Pontifici; Papal Apartments; Saint Peter's Basilica; Saint Peter's Square; Saint Peter's tomb; Lateran ...
Donato Bramante [pron 1] (1444 – 11 April 1514), [4] born as Donato di Pascuccio d'Antonio [5] and also known as Bramante Lazzari, [6] [7] was an Italian architect and painter. He introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome , where his plan for St. Peter's Basilica formed the basis of the design ...
The origins of the Vatican Grottoes date back to the 16th century, specifically around 1590–1591, when they were constructed to support the floor of the Renaissance-era St. Peter's Basilica.
A staircase or stairway is one or more flights of stairs leading from one floor to another, and includes landings, newel posts, handrails, balustrades, and additional parts. [4] In buildings, stairs is a term applied to a complete flight of steps between two floors. A stair flight is a run of stairs or steps