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Tempio Malatestiano
Cathedral of Rimini, Italy
The Tempio Malatestiano (Italian: Malatesta Temple) is the unfinishedcathedral church of Rimini, Italy.
Officially named for St. Francis, it takes the popular name from Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, who commissioned its reconstruction by the famous Renaissance theorist and architect Leon Battista Alberti around 1450.[1]
History
San Francesco was originally a thirteenth-century Gothic church belonging to the Franciscans.
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The original church had a rectangular plan without side chapels, with a single nave ending with three apses. The central one was probably frescoed by Giotto, to whom is also attributed the crucifix now housed in the second right chapel.
Malatesta called on Alberti, as his first ecclesiastical architectural work, to transform the building and make it into a kind of personal mausoleum for him and his lover and later his wife, Isotta degli Atti. The execution of the project was handed over to th
