
Cappella degli Scrovegni
The Cappella degli Scrovegni, a masterpiece of fourteenth-century Italian and European painting, is considered the most complete cycle of frescoes created by the great Tuscan master in his maturity.
Colour and light, poetry and pathos. Man and God. The sense of nature and of history, the sense of humanity and of faith fused together to recount in a unique, unrepeatable way the stories of the Madonna and of Christ.
Giotto completed the frescoes of the Chapel within the first months of 1306. At this date "...the chapel has a very simple architecture: a rectangular hall with a barrel vault, an elegant Gothic three-light window on the façade, tall and narrow windows on the south wall, a polygonal apse later raised for the bell-chamber".
The pictorial cycle of the Chapel develops three main themes: the episodes of the life of Joachim and Anne (panels 1-6), the episodes of the life of Mary (panels 7-13) and the episodes of the life and death of Christ. Beneath these frescoes, a series of panels illustrates the allegories of the Vices and the Virtues.
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