architecture
Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Assisi, Umbria, Italy
Chiesa di Santa Maria sopra Minerva [Italian]
Architecture
The Church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva stands on the site of a Roman Minerva temple, which was built in the first century BCE and from which the temple's façade and pronaos are preserved. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe visited the site in 1786 during his Italian journey and described it as the first well-preserved ancient building he had ever seen.
historic names
Temple of Hercules
Temple of Minerva
Church of Saint Donatus
Chiesa di San Donato
[Italian]
600-1539
built
1st century BCE
style/period
work type
50 BCE–400
500–1250
1250–1456
since 1456
form/concept
architect / constr. phase
1539
remodeling
1613
Baroque style remodeling
Geography
local language location name
Assisi, Italia [Italian]
historical affiliations
50 BCE-476
285-476
476-493
493-553
553-568
568-774
571-1174
776-1201
1198-1464
1464-1798
1798-1799
1799-1809
1809-1814
1814-1860
UNESCO World Heritage Site
type
cultural
criteria
I,
II,
III,
IV,
VI
designation
reference
990
