In the new Animated Visit® to the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, The Treasure of the SCROVEGNI, the characters evoked by the actors of teatrOrtaet, Alessandra Brocadello and Carlo Bertinelli, guide visitors through a journey that starts from the C.T.A. (equipped technological body), continues in the extraordinary atmosphere of the chapel, where time always flows too quickly to satisfy the eyes with the details of the story of Salvation, and ends in the cloister of the Eremitani.
The first part of the show takes place in the chapel’s C.T.A. and focuses on the ambitions of Enrico Scrovegni and his second wife, Jacopina d’Este, who, in a dialogue between them, confide to the audience the behind-the-scenes of Giotto’s frescoes.
The central part of the visit takes place inside the chapel, where the meaning of the pictorial cycle is illustrated by Alberto da Padova, the Augustinian theologian who (according to Prof. Giuliano Pisani) would have inspired the subject of the frescoes and is depicted at the center of the “Last Judgment” while offering the Chapel to the Virgin.
Mary, the protagonist of the processional parade that every April 25, on the Feast of the Annunciation, connected the cathedral and the Arena chapel, punctuates the narrative with sacred songs inside the church (Ave Maria by Schubert and Gounod). The visit ends in the cloister with a flashback on the burning topic of usury.
The wife of a debtor merchant recounts the joy of her husband’s release, following the statute of the Podestà of Padua, Stefano Badoer, inspired by the passionate Lenten preaching of Saint Anthony (1231). The Saint (about seventy years before the creation of the frescoes) had struck out against greed and usury in many of his famous sermons, defending the victims of usurers, reduced to poverty and imprisoned for debts. Blessed Elena Enselmini, a Clarisse of Arcella in the convent where the Franciscan preacher passed away, recounts the visions she had and prophesies a new magnificently frescoed church, the fruit of conversion from the sin of usury.
Full ticket 22 €
Animated Visit 15 €
Reduced Animated Visit 10 €
+ 7 € Admission to the Scrovegni Chapel
(Free admission to the Scrovegni Chapel for children up to 5 years old and disabled individuals)
With liveticket, holders of the CULTURE BONUS can purchase tickets for the animated visit by choosing the reserved rate for 18app and Carta Docente.
Maximum number of participants: 25
Tel: +39 348 3615812 /+39 324 6286197
E-mail: prenotazioni@teatrortaet.it
Information on the site ww.visiteanimate.it
