RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

INTRODUCTION

San Francesco (Tempio Malatestiano),

Rimini, Italy

ARCHITECT: Leon Battista Alberti,

Matteo de'Pasti, Agostino di Dccio

CONSTRUCTION TIME:1446-68

HISTORY

San Francesco was originally a

thirteenth-century Gothic church

belonging to the Franciscans.

It was remodelled in the revived style,

but the facade was never completed.

The church of San Francesco, Rimini

was recased as a monument to the glory

of the tyrant of Rimini, Sigismondo

Malatesta

The Tempio Malatestiano

(Italian Malatesta Temple) is the church

of Rimini, Italy. Officially named for St.

Francis, it takes the popular name from

Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta

WEST FACADE

The west facade refered to the Roman triumphal arch, Arch of Constantine in Rome and the Arch of Augustus in Rimini.

The San Francesco, Rimini was a first example of useing the motief of Roman trimuphal arch.

This made a solution of west facade design of a church which has a tall nave and low aisles.

ELEVATION

PLAN

The original church had a rectangular plan, without side chapels, with a single nave ending with three apses. The cen-tral one was probably frescoed by Giotto, to whom is also attributed the crucifix now housed in the second right chapel

EXTERIOR

The upper part of the façade, which was supposed to include a gable end, was never finished, though it had risen to a considerable height by the winter of 1454, as Malatesta's fortunes declined and the structure remained with its unexecuted east end, at his death in 1466.

OUTER FACADE

INTERIOR

Works for the renovation of the nave began some five years before those of the exterior shell that encases the church. Marble for the work was taken from the Roman ruins in Sant'Apollinare in Classe (near Ravenna) and in Fano.

INTERIOR

SAN FRANCESCO

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