Tempio Malatestiano

The Tempio Malatestiano Italian Malatesta Temple is the unfinished cathedral church of Rimini, Italy. Authoritatively named for St. Francis, it takes the mainstream name from Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, who dispatched its remaking by the well known Renaissance scholar and designer Leon Battista Alberti around 1450. San Francesco was initially a thirteenth-century Gothic church having a place with the Franciscans. The first church had a rectangular arrangement, without side houses of prayer, with a solitary nave finishing with three apses.

The focal one was most likely frescoed by Giotto, to whom is additionally ascribed the cross presently housed in the second right sanctuary. Malatesta approached Alberti, as his first ministerial engineering work, to change the building and make it into a sort of individual catacomb for him and his sweetheart and later his significant other, Isotta degli Atti. The execution of the task was given over to the Veronese Matteo di Andrea de' Pasti, contracted at the Estense court.

Likewise the upper piece of the facade, which should incorporate a peak end, was never completed, however it had ascended to a significant stature by the winter of 1454, as Malatesta's fortunes declined steeply after his banishment in 1460 and the structure stayed as we see it, with its unexecuted east end, at his demise in 1466. The two visually impaired arcades along the edge of the passageway curve were to house the sarcophagi of Sigismondo Pandolfo and Isotta, which rather are presently in the inside.