🎨 Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles: Scrovegni Chapel Church of the Eremitani

Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles comprise two distinct sacred spaces—the Scrovegni Chapel and the Church of the Eremitani—that represent a fundamental shift in Western artistic practice. Commissioned by the merchant Enrico Scrovegni in the early 1300s, these interiors feature the frescoes of Giotto di Bondone, whose naturalistic approach to human figures ...