Scrovegni Chapel

This small chapel, with its simple, clean, external lines, is composed of a single hall inside, ending with a presbytery containing the sarcophagus of Enrico Scrovegni, by Andriolo de Santi. On the altar is a Madonna and Child with Two Angels, by the 14th-century sculptor Giovanni Pisano. It was probably in 1303, having seen Giotto and his disciples working in St. Anthony's Basilica, that Scrovegni commissioned Giotto to decorate the walls of his own chapel (1303-05). The entire cycle of frescoes is considered one of the greatest artistic masterpieces of all time. Giotto illustrated some of the most evocative episodes in the New Testament in thirty-nine painted scenes, depicting events in the lives of Mary's parents, Joachim and Anne, and others in the lives of the Virgin Mary and Jesus. He also painted fourteen monochrome figures on two walls below the frescoes, allegories of the Vices and Virtues. The frescoes themselves end on the inner wall of the façade with the great Universal Judgement, as narrated in the Apocalypse.

Information:
City Museums, Piazza Eremitani 8
tel. +39 049 8204551
fax +39 049 8204585
Open all year: 09:00 - 19:00
Closed: Mondays (unless public holidays), January 1, May 1, December 25 and 26.
The Scrovegni Chapel is open, even on Mondays.
Tickets: full price for all Museums, Scrovegni Chapel, Multimedial Room and Palazzo Zuckermann: 12.00 euro; Museums, Multimedial Room and Palazzo Zuckermann: 10.00 euro; reduced price: 8.00 euro; special reduced price: 5.00 euro; children up to the age of 6 and disabled persons: free of charge.
N.B. Advance bookings are required to visit the Scrovegni Chapel: book on Telerete Nordest +39 049 2010020, Mon-Fri 09:00-19:00, Sat 09:00-18:00, or on-line: http:www.cappelladegliscrovegni.it.

To reach Palazzo Zuckermann, City Museums and Scrovegni Chapel:
from train station: buses 3, 10, 12; Sundays and holidays: buses 32, 42.
by car and coach: motorway exit Padova Est, parking at Fiera (Fair): shuttle bus service from Via Tommaseo to centre of city; or motorway exits Padova Sud and Padova Ovest, parking in Prato della Valle, with shuttle bus service to centre of town, Via Valeri (off Via Trieste), Piazza Insurrezione.

Cumulative tickets - PadovaCard, PadovaMusei Carta Famiglia (for families) and PadovaMusei Tutto l'Anno - are also available, enabling visitors to see several other monuments in Padova at special prices. Tel: +39 049 8767911.