Padua: for Schmidt, the frescoes of Giotto, Mantegna and Giusto have a good chance of becoming a Unesco heritage site

For Unesco 2019, Italy has only one candidate to join the World Heritage list: these are the fresco cycles of the fourteenth-century masters in Padua, namely Giotto (Vespignano, 1267 - Florence, 1337) and Giusto de’ Menabuoi (Florence, c. 1330 - Padua, c. 1390) to whom Andrea Mantegna (Isola di Carturo, 1431 - Mantua, 1506) would be added.Therefore, the Giottesque frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel, the frescoes in the Basilica del Santo created by Giusto de’ Menabuoi and those in the Ovetari Chapel by Mantegna would fall within the Unesco-protected group, should the candidacy pass.

The director of the Uffizi Galleries Eike Schmidt, on a visit to the city of Padua, said that, in his opinion, the cycles have a good chance of being included in the World Heritage Site and that Padua has deserved this status. “Padua therefore,” the director told Ansa, “cannot and should not remain secondary, and should have a good chance. Moreover, once there is this worldwide legal and administrative constraint, it means that certain building operations can no longer be done.”

Source: Ansa

Ph. Credit: Scrovegni Chapel

Padua: for Schmidt, the frescoes of Giotto, Mantegna and Giusto have a good chance of becoming a Unesco heritage site

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