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() in the first decade of the 14th century. The venue was the private chapel of the Scrovegni family, who had grown rich from their banking and moneylending businesses. The head of the family, Enrico Scrovegni, built it on a plot of land in Padua which had formerly been the site of a Roman arena, hence it is also called the Arena Chapel. In he commissioned Giotto to decorate it with a series of fresco mural paintings - which are now considered by most art critics to mark the end of Byzantine-style medieval painting in Europe and to pave the way for th

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