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be its main feature. We may presume that Bramante naturally shared the universal feeling of admiration for Brunelleschi's

Fig. 23.—Bramante's dome for St. Peter's, from Serlio.

dome, and that he wished to rival its imposing character. But his ardent and intelligent study of the monuments of Roman antiquity had given him a better appreciation of their superior