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•1305Giotto paints Padua Chapel
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.
An autostrada and easy train service link Venice to Padua, Vicenza, and Verona for those in a hurry, but others should take the charming back roads; this is one of Italy’s principal wine growing regions outside of Tuscany’s Chianti area.
Behind him is Padua’s great site of pilgrimage, the 13th- and 14th-century Basilica of Sant’Antonio, the city’s protector simply known as II Santo, built in honor of the Portuguese-born Franciscan monk who died in Padua in 1231.
When Venetian aristocrats gave up the high seas for a more leisurely life on the land, they built Palladian Renaissance villas and extravagantly frescoed Baroque country houses on the banks of the Brenta Canal between Venice and Padua.