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428 the study of arithmetic, but his father, to whom it was needful that the son should gain somewhat for himself, perceiving him to take great delight in drawing, turned his attention while still but a child to the art of painting. He studied therefore very zealously, more especially the works of Fra Bartolommeo, otherwise called Fra Carnavale, of Urbino, by whom the picture of Santa Maria della Bella, in that city was painted. But Bramante found his principal pleasure in architecture and the study of perspective, he departed therefore from Castel Durante, and proceeded to Lombardy, repairing first to one city and then to another, working in each meanwhile as he best could. His undertakings of that period were however not of a costly kind, or such as could do the architect much honour, since he had then neither interest nor reputation; but to the end that he might at least see something of works of merit, he removed to Milan to examine the Duomo. There was at that time a good architect and geometrician living in Milan, called Cesare Cesariano, who had written a commentary on Vitruvius, but falling into despair at finding himself disappointed in the remuneration he had expected to receive for