Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles

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Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles
UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Adoration of the Magi in the Scrovegni Chapel
Location Padua, Veneto, Italy
Criteria Cultural: (ii), (iii)
Reference 1623
Inscription2021 (44th Session)
Coordinates 45°24′43″N11°52′46″E / 45.41184°N 11.87952°E / 45.41184; 11.87952
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Location of Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles in Veneto
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Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles (Italy)

Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Padua, Italy, listed in 2021.

The site comprises eight buildings, both religious and secular, in four clusters. They house fresco cycles that were painted between 1302 and 1397 by several prominent painters: Giotto, Guariento di Arpo, Giusto de' Menabuoi, Altichiero da Zevio, Jacopo d'Avanzi, and Jacopo da Verona. The frescos are innovative in their way of depicting the allegorical narrative and use new way of perspective. Emotions of characters are shown in a realistic manner. In some frescoes, the patron who commissioned them is depicted as one of the characters in a story. This new fresco style formed the inspirational basis for centuries of fresco work in the Italian Renaissance and beyond. [1]

List of the sites

The World Heritage Site comprises four clusters:

NameImageIDProperty AreaDescription
Scrovegni Chapel, Church of the Eremitani Padova Cappella degli Scrovegni Innen Langhaus West 5.jpg 1623-0017.18 hectares (17.7 acres)
Palazzo della Ragione, Chapel of the Cararesi Palace, Cathedral Baptistery Palazzo della Ragione Padua Saal.jpg 1623-0027.34 hectares (18.1 acres)
Basilica and Monastery of St. Anthony, Oratory of San Giorgio Sant'Antonio (Padua) - Cappella del beato Luca Belludi - Giusto de' Menabuoi.jpg 1623-0035.19 hectares (12.8 acres)
San Michele Oratory Padova - Oratorio San Michele.jpg 1623-0040.25 hectares (0.62 acres)

References

  1. "Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 27 December 2021.