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At the turn of the fourteenth century, Enrico Scrovegni constructed the most opulent palace that the city of Padua had seen, and he engaged the great Florentine painter, Giotto, to decorate the walls of his private chapel (1303-5). In that same decade, Dante consigned Enrico's father, a notorious usurer, to the seventh circle of hell. The frescoes rank with Dante's Divine Comedy as some of the great monuments of late medieval Italian culture, and yet much about the fresco program is incompletely
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- Author
- Anne Derbes and Mark Sandona
- Publisher
- University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780271032566
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Art, Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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