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Giovanni Dalmata's earliest works include the side portal of the Palazzo Venezia, Rome, built for Cardinal Pietro Barbo (later Pope Paul II), and the lunette and other sculptures on the façade of the tempietto at Vicovaro.
The Tempietto of San Giacomo Maggiore is one of the most significant architectural examples of the early Renaissance in Lazio, built at the behest of Giovanni Antonio Orsini in 1448.
Fascinating is the majestic entrance portal with archivolt, lunette and two superimposed rows of niches, which house ten statues on each side, which are distributed on the sides of the door. Three sides are occupied by slightly splayed mullioned windows, open in the centre of the wall and decorated with bands of columns on polygonal bases; in the middle of the mullioned window, an octagonal pillar supports the tunnel made up of the heraldic rose of the Orsini.
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