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The Scrovegni Chapel (Italian: Cappella degli Scrovegni [kapˈpɛlla deʎʎi skroˈveɲɲi]), also known as the Arena Chapel, is a small church, adjacent to the Augustinian monastery, the Monastero degli Eremitani in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. The chapel and monastery are now part of the complex of the Musei Civici di Padova. The chapel ...
English: Facade of the Cappella degli Scrovegni (Scrovegni chaple) in Padua, Italy. Italiano: Facciata della Cappella degli Scrovegni a Padova . Foto di Schubbay , 4 Novembre 2004.
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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 ...
Interior of the Scrovegni Chapel with a large fresco cycle by Giotto. St. Augustine Gospels, Italian, about 600, now only a quarter survives. Many miracles. Castelseprio; Codex Aureus of Echternach, 11th-century Ottonian gospel book, with some 60 scenes, including many parables; St. Albans Psalter, cycle of 40 images, mostly full-page. The ...
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 ...
There is a story that Dante visited Giotto while he was painting the Scrovegni Chapel and, seeing the artist's children underfoot asked how a man who painted such beautiful pictures could have such plain children. Giotto, who according to Vasari was always a wit, replied, "I make my pictures by day, and my babies by night."
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