Giotto in Bratislava. THE COPY of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua that is being exhibited at the Bratislava castle shows beauty of this, Giotto di Bondone's most important work.The copy is a 1:4 ratio ...

PADUA, Italy — We were advised to arrive an hour early for what we soon learned was the best 15 minutes in art history. Not that the Scrovegni Chapel is that hard to find.

Completed by Giotto in 1305, the Scrovegni Chapel frescoes, in Padua, Italy, upended traditional art of the Middle Ages and set the stage for the Italian Renaissance.

Padua's famed Arena Chapel, home to Italian master Giotto di Bondone's most celebrated frescoes, will reopen its doors to the public next week. The paintings, some of the most famous in the ...

PADUA, a city riddled with concrete and ringed by huge industrial suburbs, seems an unlikely host to a 14th-century masterpiece. Yet its Scrovegni Chapel, a narrow building lined with lyrical blue ...

But frescoes by the Italian Renaissance painter, Giotto di Bondone, in the 14th century Scrovegni Chapel, are now said to be threatened by a symbol of the modern world: a futuristic 30-storey ...

In 1868 the Italian family who owned the Scrovegni chapel agreed to sell Giotto’s frescoes to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Imagine: pre-Christmas crowds would be filing past these ...