Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Adoration of the Magi in the Scrovegni Chapel
LocationPadua, Veneto, Italy
CriteriaCultural: (ii), (iii)
Reference1623
Inscription2021 (44th Session)
Coordinates45°24′43″N 11°52′46″E / 45.41184°N 11.87952°E / 45.41184; 11.87952
Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles is located in Veneto
Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles
Location of Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles in Veneto
Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles is located in Italy
Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles
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:

Name Image ID Property Area Description
Scrovegni Chapel, Church of the Eremitani Interior of the chapel, covered by frescos 1623-001 7.18 hectares (17.7 acres)
Palazzo della Ragione, Chapel of the Cararesi Palace, Cathedral Baptistery Interior of a large hall, covered by frescos 1623-002 7.34 hectares (18.1 acres)
Basilica and Monastery of St. Anthony, Oratory of St. George Church altar, covered by frescos 1623-003 5.19 hectares (12.8 acres)
Oratory of St.Michael 1623-004 0.25 hectares (0.62 acres)

References

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


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