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A number of 14th-century sources (Riccobaldo Ferrarese, Francesco da Barberino, 1312–1313) testify to Giotto's presence at the Arena Chapel's site. The fresco cycle can be dated with a good approximation to a series of documentary testimonies: the purchase of the land took place on 6 February 1300; the bishop of Padua, Ottobono dei Razzi ...
Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ) is a fresco painted c.1305 by the Italian artist Giotto as part of his cycle of the Life of Christ on the interior walls of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy. [1] The Scrovegni Chapel was built as a private chapel next to the Eremitani Monastery by the wealthy Scrovegni family and consecrated in 1305.
Giotto's masterwork is the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel, in Padua, also known as the Arena Chapel, which was completed around 1305. The fresco cycle depicts the Life of the Virgin and the Life of Christ .
Giotto’s utilization of figure and frame enhances the illusion of special continuity beyond the confines of the artificial frame; This has been consistently evident across his extensive series of frescoes he created after 1305 in the Arena Chapel of Padua.
Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Padua, Italy, listed in 2021. The site comprises eight buildings, both religious and secular, in four clusters. They house fresco cycles that were painted between 1302 and 1397 by several prominent painters: Giotto , Guariento di Arpo , Giusto de' Menabuoi , Altichiero ...
Giotto's Frescoes in Arena Chapel - It is clearly visible particularly in the Lamentation panel. The sky is broken up into several pieces and there are faint lines of demarcation visible around several of the figures. Note the lines in the sky and also the different shades of blue.
In 2009, he won the Bookseller's Prize of the city of Padua with his book about Giotto's frescoes in the Arena Chapel. In 2010, he won the Caorle Mare Award for Culture. For his cultural merits in 1991, he was elected member of the Société Européenne de Culture, and since 1996, he has been a member of Lorenzo Valla foundation.
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