Executive summary by darmansjah
The church was dedicated to Santa Maria della Carità at the
Feast of the Annunciation, 1303, and consecrated in 1305. Giotto's fresco cycle
focuses on the life of the Virgin Mary and celebrates her role in human
salvation. A motet by Marchetto da Padova appears to have been composed for the
dedication on 25 March 1305. The chapel is also known as the Arena Chapel
because it was built on land purchased by Enrico Scrovegni that abutted the
site of a Roman arena. The space was where an open-air procession and sacred
representation of the Annunciation to the Virgin had been played out for a
generation before the chapel was built.
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