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Arena Chapel
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Arena Chapel

Chapel in Padua, Italy, with frescoes by Giotto. It was built 1303–05 for the Italian banker Enrico Scrovegni on the site of a 1st-century Roman amphitheatre (arena), the paintings being carried out at the same time.

The main decorative scheme, in three zones along the side walls, depicts the history of the Redemption in scenes from the lives of Mary and Jesus Christ. A fourth zone, below these, has allegorical figures of virtues and vices.
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Leonardo da Vinci looked up to him, and so does the film director Martin Scorsese, who once named Giotto's fresco cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, where this scene of The Capture of Christ is to be found, as his favourite work of art.
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Possibly the most famous of the medieval visual representations of the Annunciation is the one painted in fresco by Giotto in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, in 1305-6.
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