Palazzo Caprini was a Renaissance

Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance...

 palazzo

Palazzo

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 in Rome

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, Italy

Italy

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, in the Borgo

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 rione between Piazza Scossacavalli and via Alessandrina. It was designed by Donato Bramante

Donato Bramante

Donato Bramante was an Italian architect, who introduced the Early Renaissance style to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his most famous design was St...

 around 1510, or a few years before.

It was also known as Palazzo di Raffaello, or Raphael

Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...

's House, since the artist had bought it in 1517 and lived there until his death. In the late 16th century the building was annexed in the Palazzo dei Convertendi, and it was demolished in the 17th century. Its appearance is known from an etching by Antoine Lafréry and a partial sketch attributed to Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio

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The palace had a façade with five bays and two levels, with rustication

Rustication (architecture)

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 (obtained with stucco

Stucco

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) at the lower floor. The upper floor had windows divided by double Doric columns, surmounted by a complete entablature

Entablature

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