Giotto’s frescoes are now shown to even better advantage

Of Giotto’s surviving works, the Cappella degli Scrovegni in Padua remains the most famous to this day. It has now been newly illuminated by Iguzzini, the Italian manufacturer of architectural lighting. An undertaking that has paid off.

It is a highlight of art history: the Cappella degli Scrovegni in Padua. The aristocratic banker and entrepreneur Enrico Scrovegni had it built in 1300 on the ruins of a Roman amphitheater (arena). The Florentine master Giotto di Bondone created the frescoes of the now world-famous chapel between 1302 and 1305 in just under 860 days. The artist was not even 40 years old at the time. He depicted scenes from the Old and New Testaments over an area of 1,000 square meters – revolutionizing painting in the process.

At the beginning of September, the new lighting was presented in a festive setting on the premises of the Musei Civici with a major international press conference followed by a tour of the chapel. The Italian company Iguzzini, which specializes in lighting, has long since made a name for itself in the field of museum lighting technology and developed outstanding solutions for the Leonardo Supper in Milan and in the theater in Taormina. For their latest coup in Padua, the lighting experts worked closely with the Commissione Interdisciplinare per la Conservazione ed il Restauro della Cappella degli Scrovegni and the Sezione di Fotometria dell’Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro in Padua.

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Here are some impressions from Padua:

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