(ANSA) - Padua, August 28 - A bolt of lightning has damaged an outer wall of the world-famous Scrovegni chapel decorated with priceless early 14th century frescoes painted by the master Giotto, art ...

I'm in Padua (just half an hour from Venice, but a world away), and I really like this town. Padua's museums and churches hold their own in Italy's artistic big league, its hotels are reasonably ...

(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 ...

THE COPY of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua that is being exhibited at the Bratislava castle shows beauty of this, Giotto di Bondone's most important work.The copy is a 1:4 ratio scale model that makes ...

Italian climate change activists have staged another intervention, this time with different tactics. On 21 August, demonstrators from the Ultima Generazione group chained themselves to a railing in ...

I’m in Padua (just half an hour from Venice, but a world away), and I really like this town. Padua’s museums and churches hold their own in Italy’s artistic big league; its hotels are reasonably ...

They are regarded as a supreme masterpiece of medieval Western art and are admired by thousands of visitors to the city of Padua each year. But frescoes by the Italian Renaissance painter, Giotto di ...

The restoration of one of the world's most famous fresco paintings - Giotto's masterpiece in the Scrovegni chapel in Padua - is nearing completion and will be open to the public again on 18 March. The ...

Often overlooked by visitors, despite, or perhaps because of its proximity to Venice, Padua is one of Europe's great cultural and artistic destinations. Mantegna, Donatello and Titian all left ...