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Local master artist Tintoretto (1518–1594) won a competition to create for the hall some 50 paintings (the largest collection of his work anywhere) over a period of 23 years, a series comparable in grandeur to Giotto’s frescoes in Padua’s Scrovegni Chapel or Florence’s Brancacci chapel by Masaccio.
In 38 pictures arranged in three rows under a starry heavenly-blue vault, Giotto tells the story of Mary and Jesus.
The superb frescoes of the life of Jesus in the St. Mary Magdalen Chapel (closest to altar on the right nave) and of St. Francis’s vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience above the elegant Gothic high altar are attributed to Giotto (1307) and his workshop.
As a penance for his father’s usury, the patrician Enrico Scrovegni built the simple little hall in 1303 specifically for the great Giotto frescoes.
The basilica’s highlight, and generally accepted as the work of a young Giotto, the Life of Francis (1296-1304) is movingly celebrated in 28 scenes along the lower tier (starting from the right transept), while 32 frescoes in the upper tier illustrate scenes from the Old and New Testament.