Visiting: Cappella degli Scrovegni
ARTIST: Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267 - 1337) ARTWORK: Cappella degli Scrovegni (The Arena Chapel) DATE: 1303 - 1305 MATERIALS: Fresco LOCATION: Padua, Italy (Padova) This post will describe Giotto's adornment of a commissioned familial chapel. The chapel structure itself is nothing but a long, tall and plain rectangular box. However, Giotto's painted imagery transforms it into something that feels like an architectural wonder steeped in spiritual reverence. Giotto was pe