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of Rome and intended to be among the largest in Italy—was never built. Also 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 steeply after his
465:. The chapel, like numerous other places in the church, is characterized by the presence of the SI monogram (from the initial of Sigismondo and Isotta's names, or, according to others, the first two letters of the former) sporting a rose, an elephant and three heads.
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in 1460 and the structure remained as we see it, with its unexecuted east end, at his death in 1466. The two blind arcades at the side of the entrance arch were to house the sarcophagi of
Sigismondo Pandolfo and Isotta, which instead are now in the interior.
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Due to the strong presence of elements referring to the
Malatesta's history, and to Sigismondo Pandolfo himself (in particular, his lover Isotta), the church was considered by some contemporaries to be an exaltation of Paganism.
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portraying
Malatesta kneeling before the saint (1451). The following chapel (Cappella degli Angeli) houses the tomb of Isotta and the Giotto crucifix, allegedly painted during his sojourn in Rimini of 1308–1312.
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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,
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The bodies of some of
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The entrance portal has a triangular pediment over the door set within the center arch; geometrical decorations fill the
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Works for the renovation of the nave began some five years before those of the exterior shell that encases the church.
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in Rome. But as Rudolf
Wittkower remarked, he drew details (the base, the half-columns, the discs, moldings) from the
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The church is immediately recognizable from its wide marble façade, decorated by sculptures probably made by
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Immediately right of the main door is
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Orsini Luigi, The
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534:(Milan) 1924, remains the standard monograph, supplemented by Cesare Brandi,
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that appears in Matteo's foundation medal of 1450—similar to that of the
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Sigmondo Malatesta, the Prince of Rimini, before St. Sigismund by
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15th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
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1073:Leon Battista Alberti church buildings
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717:(original project c. 1450; unfinished)
486:The church was heavily damaged during
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548:Delucca, Oreste (24 October 2012).
223:Doorway of the Malatesta Temple by
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550:"I 200 anni del nostro camposanto"
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