Tempio Malatestiano

Tempio Malatestiano
Religion
AffiliationRoman Catholic
DistrictDiocese of Rimini
Ecclesiastical or organizational statusMinor basilica
Year consecrated800
Location
LocationItaly Rimini, Italy
Geographic coordinates44°03′35″N 12°34′13″E / 44.059624°N 12.570232°E / 44.059624; 12.570232
Architecture
Architect(s)Leon Battista Alberti
TypeChurch
StyleRomanesque
Groundbreaking800
Completed1468 (unfinished)
Doorway of the Malatesta Temple by Leon Battista Alberti.
The cathedral's nave, with crucifix in the apse veiled for Passiontide.

The Tempio Malatestiano (Italian: Malatesta Temple) is the unfinished cathedral 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]

  1. ^ Corrado Ricci, Il Tempio Malatestiano (Milan) 1924, remains the standard monograph, supplemented by Cesare Brandi, Il Tempio Malatestiano (Turin) 1956. Sigismondo had begun modestly, with two chapels added to the interior, 1447-49.