Giotto Paints the Frescoes of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua

Name: Giotto Paints the Frescoes of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua
Start: 1303
End: 1305

Type Event Region Europe Time 1303–1305

Between 1303 and 1305, Italian painter Giotto di Bondone, commissioned by the Paduan merchant Enrico Scrovegni, created a series of frescoes in the A…

Timeline

1303Scrovegni Chapel · PaduaGiotto began fresco work in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, arranging scenes of the Virgin and Life of Christ in three narrative registers, introducing figures with greater sense of volume and more naturalistic spatial treatment.
1305Scrovegni Chapel · PaduaThe chapel's fresco cycle was completed around 1305, with masterpieces such as the Last Judgment on the west wall and the Lamentation on the entrance wall; the entire decorative scheme became a representative work of Giotto's mature art and was recorded in contemporary documents as an epoch-making achievement.

Sources

Giotto — Encyclopaedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giotto
Scrovegni Chapel — Encyclopaedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/Scrovegni-Chapel