A detail from Daniel Castor’s “Jellyfish” rendering of Bramante’s Tempietto showing the stairs to the crypt. Pencil on paper.
A detail from Daniel Castor’s “Jellyfish” rendering of Bramante’s Tempietto showing the stairs leading to the crypt below the main chapel. Because the altar in the chapel is hollow, a window above the entry to the crypt allows light to enter the space. The ingenuity of this solution was celebrated during a sequence in the 2013 film La Grand Bellezza (The Great Beauty) by Paolo Sorrentino.