The Tempio Malatestiano 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.
Tempio Malatestiano
Doorway of the Malatesta Temple by Leon Battista Alberti.
The cathedral's nave, with crucifix in the apse veiled for Passiontide.
Sigmondo Malatesta, the Prince of Rimini, before St. Sigismund by Piero della Francesca.
The House of Malatesta was an Italian family that ruled over Rimini from 1295 until 1500, as well as other lands and towns in Romagna and holding high positions in the government of cities in present-day Tuscany, Lombardy and Marche. The dynasty is considered among the most important and influential of the Late Middle Ages. In the period of maximum influence, they extended their domains along the Marche coast, up to Ascoli Piceno, Senigallia, Sansepolcro and Citerna, and to the north, on the territories of Bergamo and Brescia.
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Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-1468), by Piero della Francesca
Palazzo dell'Arengo, Rimini