Tempietto

San Pietro in Montorio, Rome

Tempietto ( Italian for little temple ) refers to small structures in the shape of a temple, mostly designed as round temples with columns and dome. Examples are the Tempietto di Bramante in Rome and the Tempietto Barbaro in Veneto.

In landscape architecture , Tempietto is used as a collective term for smaller temple structures of various shapes that were designed according to ancient forms. They differ in the presence of a portico from the Monopteroi , which are open on all sides , so they are axially aligned differently from these.

In a further reduced form, tabernacles in the form of a tempietto were created on the high altar in the interior of churches . From the middle of the 16th century, these Tempietto tabernacles became the common tabernacle form in northern Italy; as in the Milan Cathedral , they could reach a height of more than two meters.

Individual evidence

↑ Article Tempietto in Peter W. Hartmann: Das Kunstlexikon . Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-9500612-0-7 ( online ).
^ Caroline Rolka: Historical small-scale architectures in Saxony . Frank & Timme, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86596-134-1 , pp. 36 .
↑ Claire Guinomet: The Italian Sacrament tabernacle in the 16th century. Tempietto architectures in miniature for the storage of the Eucharist . Dissertation, University of Bonn. 2010, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 5-33291 (electronic resource).

[1] Article Tempietto in Peter W. Hartmann: Das Kunstlexikon . Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-9500612-0-7 ( online ).

[2] Caroline Rolka: Historical small-scale architectures in Saxony . Frank & Timme, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86596-134-1 , pp. 36 .

[3] Claire Guinomet: The Italian Sacrament tabernacle in the 16th century. Tempietto architectures in miniature for the storage of the Eucharist . Dissertation, University of Bonn. 2010, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 5-33291 (electronic resource).