UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian
(active in 1320s in Padua)

Episodes from the Life of the Virgin

after 1323
Fresco
Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

Certainly subsequent to Giotto's work in the Arena Chapel is the decoration of the presbytery walls by the hand of an anonymous painter who was inspired in any case by the Florentine master. This intervention is dated after 1323, the year of the canonization of St Thomas Aquinas, who is depicted with a halo on the arch separating the presbytery from the apse.

The episodes represents the life of the Virgin from the death of Christ until her assumption in heaven.

The picture shows the scenes on the right wall of the presbytery.




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