Mausoleums

NOTES: Regarded as the cathedral church of Rimini, the Tempio Malatestiano was a recasing of the 13th Gothic church of San Francisco. Alberti was commissioned by his patron Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta to design a mausoleum for his wife Isotta degli Atti. Alberti produced a design around 1450, but the execution of the project was given to Matteo di Andrea de' Pasti, who produced the famous temple front. This was to have a higher central gable or pediment, but was not completed and remained so at his death in 1467.

NOTES: Regarded as the cathedral church of Rimini, the Tempio Malatestiano was a recasing of the 13th Gothic church of San Francisco. Alberti was commissioned by his patron Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta to design a mausoleum for his wife Isotta degli Atti. Alberti produced a design around 1450, but the execution of the project was given to Matteo di Andrea de' Pasti, who produced the famous temple front. This was to have a higher central gable or pediment, but was not completed and remained so at his death in 1467.

SOURCE: Sir Banister Flight Fletcher (revised by R. A. Cordingly). A History of architecture on the comparative method, 17th ed. (London: Athlone Press, 1961), p.296 NOTES: San Constanza was erected in 330 AD by the emperor Constantine as a mausoleum to his daughter Constantia. It was converted into a church in 1256. The tomb of Galla Placida, Ravenna dates from 420 AD and the tomb of Theodoric, Ravenna, dates from 530 AD.

NOTES: Castel Sant'Angelo was originally constructed as a mausoleum for the Emperor Hadrian in 135-139 AD. The bridge, built at the same time to connect the mausoleum to the Campus Martius, was named Ponte Elio (Pons Aelius). When the mausoleum became a castle in 401 AD, it was renamed Castel Sant'Angelo and the bridge took the same name.

NOTES: This image is from an album of postcards of views of Rome, entitled 'Roma', probably dating from the late 1890s or early 1900s. Castel Sant'Angelo was originally constructed as a mausoleum for the Emperor Hadrian in 135-139 AD. The bridge, built at the same time to connect the mausoleum to the Campus Martius, was named Ponte Elio (Pons Aelius). When the mausoleum became a castle in 401 AD, it was renamed Castel Sant'Angelo and the bridge took the same name.

NOTES: See RIBA155454 for a colour version of this image.

NOTES: See RIBA119082 for a colour version of this image