Editing Rotunda (section)

==Medieval and Renaissance Europe==
[[File:Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio.jpg|thumb|upright|The ''[[Tempietto del Bramante|Tempietto]]'' at [[San Pietro in Montorio]], Rome by [[Donato Bramante]] c. 1502]]
The [[Pisa Baptistery]] is the outstanding late medieval rotunda, taking from 1152 to 1363 to build, and including [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]], [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] and classicizing or [[Proto-Renaissance]] elements. There are a number of other [[round church]]es. 

The rotunda with columns was revived in one of the most influential buildings in [[Renaissance architecture]], the ''[[Tempietto del Bramante|Tempietto]]'' in a courtyard of the church of [[San Pietro in Montorio]] in Rome. This was designed by [[Donato Bramante]] around 1502 in strongly classicizing style. It is a small building whose innovation, as far as Western Europe was concerned, was to use the tholos form as the base for a dome above; this may have reflected a Byzantine structure in [[Jerusalem]] over the tomb of Christ.  The Roman [[Temple of Vesta]] (which has no dome) was probably also an influence.  This pairing of tholos, now called a drum or [[tholobate]], and dome became extremely popular raised high above main structures which were often based on the [[Roman temple]].<ref>Freiburg, Jack, [https://www.sacredarchitecture.org/articles/temple_tabernacle_and_sepulchre_the_legacy_of_bramantes_tempietto "Temple, Tabernacle, and Sepulchre: The Legacy of Bramante’s Tempietto"], ''Sacred Architecture Journal'', Vol 39, 2021; Summerson, 41–42; Loth</ref>