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The frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel are considered the most complete cycle of frescoes realized by Giotto in his maturity. The chapel represents a masterpiece of medieval Italian painting. Colour and light, poetry and pathos. Man and God. Nature and history, humanity and faith are mixed up to narrate in a unique and unrepeatable way the stories of the Virgin Mary and of Jesus Christ. Giotto completed the frescoes around the year 1306. Old documents report the description of the chapel: "...the chapel is architectonically very simple: a rectangular hall with vaulted ceiling, an elegant gothic three-light window, high and narrow windows on the southern wall, a polygonal apse later rearranged to form the belltower cell".
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Western Europe
