The narrative cycles rest on a painted dado. This complements the pictorial program, and proves to be one of the inventions with which Giotto renewed art, even in what is supposed to be only a secondary setting.

Two very realistically painted, multi-colored panels of marble alternate respectively with depictions of figures. The personifications of the Vices on the one side, and of the Virtues on the other, appear here as marble sculptures brought to life. However, they are not made of stone. This kind of tone-on-tone painting (grisaille) is just as novel as the view into a painted sacristy, which Giotto displays above the marble dado on either side of the triumphal arch. Here, painted and real space once again merge into one. Using a very clear perspective - with a common vanishing point - Giotto depicts two views of an interior space with cross-rib vaulting, whose dimensions are suggested by the lamp which hangs from the ceiling.

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	Circumcision (on the decorative band) 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Decorative band 1303-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Moses Brings Forth Water out of the Rock (on the decorative band) 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Jonah Swallowed up by the Whale (on the decorative band) 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Creation of Adam (on the decorative band) 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Prophet Eliseus with Youths (on the decorative band) 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Elijah on the Fire-cart (on the decorative band) 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Moses at the Mount Sinai (on the decorative band) 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Decorative band with figures 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Decorative band with figure 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Decorative band with figures 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Decorative band with figure 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Decorative band 1303-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Decorative band 1303-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Painted veined marble (detail) 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	View of a chapel 1304-06 Fresco, 150 x 140 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	View of a chapel 1304-06 Fresco, 150 x 140 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Scenes with decorative bands 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Scenes with decorative bands 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	Scenes with decorative bands 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	South wall (detail) 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
	North wall (detail) 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua