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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.
Cast of Giovanni Pisano's effigy of Enrico Scrovegni, in the chapel. The Arena Chapel was commissioned to Giotto by the affluent Paduan banker, Enrico Scrovegni. [5] In the early 1300s Enrico purchased from Manfredo Dalesmanini the area on which the Roman arena had stood. Here he had his luxurious palace built, as well as a chapel annexed to it.
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. It is regarded as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Early Renaissance.
Lamentation by Giotto, 1305. The Lamentation of Christ [1] is a very common subject in Christian art from the High Middle Ages to the Baroque. [2] After Jesus was crucified, his body was removed from the cross and his friends mourned over his body.
The table below shows whether a scene was the subject of a feast-day in the Western church, and gives the contents of the cycles (described above and below) by: Giotto in the Scrovegni Chapel, a typical Book of hours, [5] the Hours of Catherine of Cleves, [6] the cycle of the "Master of the Louvre Life of the Virgin", [7] Ghirlandajo's Tornabuoni Chapel cycle, and the print cycles of Israhel ...
Reginaldo degli Scrovegni was a Paduan nobleman of the Guelph faction who lived in the 13th century just before the time of Giotto and Dante. He is best known for being cited as a usurer by Dante in the Divine Comedy, and to be the father of Enrico degli Scrovegni , who commissioned the famous Arena Chapel painted by Giotto.
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Padua Crucifix (c. 1300-1305). The Padua Crucifix (Italian: Crocifisso di Padova) is a painting in tempera on poplar panel by Giotto of c. 1303–1305. [1] Originally hanging in the centre of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, above the latticework of the iconostasis, it was probably contemporaneous with his frescoes in the same chapel. [2]