Santa Maria della Consolazione, Todi

Santa Maria della Consolazione is a Renaissance-style pilgrimage church in Todi, Italy. The centralized, symmetric plan, surmounted by a tall dome, distinguishes this Renaissance church, from the more common elongated basilica or Latin-cross designs.

The original project is attributed to Donato Bramante, despite the absence of documentation. Cola da Caprarola, supposedly aided by Baldassarre Peruzzi, began construction in 1508 on the flank of the city hill, just outside the walls. The design is often erroneously attributed to Bramante. It has a Greek cross plan: three apses are polygonal and the one on the north side is semicircular. Other architects who helped bring the work to completion were Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Galeazzo Alessi, Michele Sanmicheli, Vignola and Ippolito Scalza. The church was completed only by 1607. The apse is surmounted by a square terrace with four eagles at the corners, from which the dome rises.