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
faade, 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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