ABSTRACT

All of the studies from the 19th century to date which concern the architecture of Humanism, proclaim the Temple of Santa Maria della Consolazione in Todi as the exemplary image of the “ideal Church”, as it is a definite expression of the solid and complex cultural and religious content which characterized the architectural ideals of that time. It represents these models as it is an image of the transition from the Middle-Ages to the Modern Ages, a period dense with values and boundaries (Fig. 1).