I am a person who loves art and those who love art like me cannot fail to have visited at least once in their life the famous Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, one of the absolute masterpieces of world art in my opinion.
I visited it a while ago but I want to share these photos with you both to tell you the story in this chapel but also the sensations it aroused in me.
This small chapel was part of a series of buildings that arose around 60 D.C. together with the Padua Arena, which was destroyed throughout history.
Fortunately, this chapel was bought in 1300 by Enrico Scrovegni, a wealthy man from Padua, who decided to renovate it by modifying the interior and creating a sarcophagus where he himself will be buried, but also to make it more beautiful, with a cycle of frescoes that many people attribute to the famous Giotto.
Impressive the blue color of the ceiling
Do you think that all these frescoes were completed in just two years and honestly no proof has ever been found that they were actually done by Giotto, most likely the artist also helped himself here helpers since at that time he also had to work in Rome.
I think that after the masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel, the cycle of frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel represents the highest masterpiece in the history of art.
What struck me about this place, making some final considerations, was first of all the organization of the visit also because the place is very small and many people cannot enter, but above all because after the degradation of the 80s, finally someone realized that this work must be safeguarded.
The route lasts practically 30 minutes and you enter in groups of 15 people the cost of the full ticket per person is € 14 included in the price there is also the Zuckerman palace and the eremitani museum so if you happen to be near Padua you will not just pay us a visit.