The Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy

Welcome to this tour of the world famous Scrovegni Chapel!
Seven centuries ago, in the year of the first Jubilee, the first stone of the chapel was laid, which Enrico Scrovegni, a rich Paduan banker and businessman, had erected to complete the palace.
To adorn the building, intended to welcome himself and his descendants after his death, Enrico called two of the greatest artists of the time: Giovanni Pisano commissioned 3 marble altar statues depicting the Madonna and Child between two deacons, to Giotto the pictorial decoration of the wall surface.
Giotto was already a famous artist: he had worked for the Pope in the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi and in San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome, in Padua in the Basilica of Sant'Antonio and in the Palazzo della Ragione.
He was entrusted with the task of depicting a sequence of stories taken from the Old and the New Testament that culminated in the death and resurrection of the Son of God and in the Last Judgment, in order to urge those who entered the Chapel to think again about his sacrifice for salvation. of humanity.
He imagined an architectural structure in painted imitation marbles that supports the vault with the appearance of a starry sky and the panels with the stories of the Virgin and Christ.
The work was completed in a very short time, so much so that in 1305, after only 2 years of work, the chapel was completely decorated and was consecrated for the second time.
Nothing is known, even today, of the history of the chapel until the 19th century, when it risked disappearing due to the lack of interest of the new owners who had let the portico on the facade and the building built by Enrico collapse.
These events had a negative impact on the chapel, which was left without support and unprotected on the left side and on the facade. The intervention of the Municipality, which in the meantime had bought it in 1881, served to prevent its loss, but both the building and the frescoes were already seriously damaged.
Radical restoration interventions were carried out especially at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 1960s.
But more recently a new phenomenon of degradation caused by pollution had arisen, whereby the color pulverized and fell.
In order to understand how to intervene, for some years targeted scientific investigations were carried out, from whose results it was possible to deduce what to do to slow down the degradation and, above all, to prevent it from undergoing dangerous accelerations again in the future.
The consequent interventions were concluded when, on May 31, 2000, the Equipped Technological Corps was activated, a technological lung to protect Giotto's most important pictorial cycle and one of the most important of all time.
Only after having checked the correct functioning of environmental prevention for a year could conservation and restoration operations begin.
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