View of the Cappella dei Pianeti

The Chapel of the Planets features the reliefs depicting the Planets and the Signs of the Zodiac. It is perhaps the greatest single achievement in the Tempio Malatestiano. On a formal plane the carvings in this chapel provide some of the most felicitous and appealing schemes in the whole of Italian relief sculpture. Especially notable are the landscapes which proceed from the International Gothic landscapes found in the first half of the fifteenth century throughout North Italy.