Here in this chapel, Giotto, the shepherd-boy painter from Florence, produced his most complete series of frescoes. Painted between 1303 and 1305, its depictions of the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary are full of human warmth and a sense of calm; honesty is imbued in the simple figures, and the vivid colors have endured.
The barrel-vaulted chapel holds the tomb of its patron, Enrico Scrovegni. He commissioned the work to atone for his userer father, whom the Renaissance poet, Dante Alighieri, had just confined to hell in The Divine Comedy.