Padua, in northern Italy's Veneto region, is the site of one of the world’s greatest art treasures that should be on every art lover’s bucket list. The Scrovegni Chapel houses the extraordinary ...

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PADUA, Italy — We were advised to arrive an hour early for what we soon learned was the best 15 minutes in art history. Not that the Scrovegni Chapel is that hard to find. It is on the outskirts of ...

(by John Phillips) (ANSA) Rome, August 28 - The disclosure that lightning struck the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua three weeks ago sent shock waves through the art world though its famed frescoes painted ...

After eight months of restoration, the scaffolding finally came down March 18 on one of the world's great art treasures, the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy. The 700-year-old chapel contains frescoes ...

An undated photo of the nave of the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy. (Credit: Zairon/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).) ROME – On Wednesday, the bishop of the northern Italian city of Padua upheld a ...

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This property is composed of eight religious and secular building complexes, within the historic walled city of Padua, which house a selection of fresco cycles painted between 1302 and 1397 by ...

When visitors look up at the ceiling of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy, they often suddenly fall silent. Painted above are the golden stars and the enchanting blue skies of a heaven envisioned ...