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After Bramante's death in 1514, he was named architect of the new St Peter's.

Most of his work there was altered or demolished after his death and the acceptance of Michelangelo's design, but a few drawings have survived.

It appears his designs would have made the church a good deal gloomier than the final design, with massive piers all the way down the nave, " like an alley " according to a critical posthumous analysis by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.

It would perhaps have resembled the temple in the background of The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple.