The work

A notable project by Bramante was the Palazzo Caprini al Borgo, Rome, which became the model for many 16th-century palaces. The palace was later purchased by Raphael (called Casa di Raffaello; later destroyed). According to Vasari, Bramante had, around 1509, designed the architectural background for Raphael's School of Athens and, in return, Raphael depicted Bramante in the fresco in the guise of Euclid.

The appearance of the main facade is known from an engraving by Antonio Lafreri and from a partial sketch attributed to Andrea Palladio.

The palace had a five-bay, two-level facade, with ashlar (using stucco) on the lower floor which, as often in Rome, was rented to shops. The upper floor had windows divided by double Doric columns, topped by a full entablature. It was very influential, providing a standard model for the integration of the ashlar ground floor with arched openings, characteristic of 15th-century Florentine palaces such as the Palazzo Pitti, with the classical orders. The decorative inclusion of large ashlar voussoirs and a keystone in place of the architrave on the flat tops of the lower rectangular openings in the final shop fronts was also a device with a long future.

Among the many buildings featuring variations of the design is Somerset House in London.

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