Rimini - Tempio Malatestiano

Light is the first thing that affect the visitor when he enters inside this building, designed by Leon Battista Alberti and commissioned by the Lord of the city, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, as an almost pagan temple (he was fighting against the Pope and he didn't want any cristian symbol inside it) to celebrate his fastes and his lineage.
Light that comes down from the high gothic windows and flows in the lateral chapels and on the little angels that decorate their balustrades.
Little angels who smile, play, become sad while they're keeping eternal company with the man who wanted them, one of the bravest and most ruthless "condottiero" of rinascimental Italy.

In depth
Tempio Malatestiano
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta