The Scrovegni Chapel (Cappella degli Scrovegni in Italian) (also known as the Arena or the Annunciation) is located in the historic center of Padua and houses a renowned cycle of frescoes by Giotto made ​​in the early fourteenth century, considered the one of the masterpieces of Western art.
This masterpiece of painting with intense colors – the famous blue Giotto – was commissioned in the early fourteenth century by a wealthy patron, Enrico Scrovegni, Paduan banker and business man, son of a famous usurer of Padova, Dante had precipitated him in Hell, in the seventeenth song of the first part of the Divine Comedy.