{"id":45384,"date":"2021-04-25T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2021\/04\/25\/striking-virtual-tour-shows-frescoes-painted-by-giotto-700-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2021-04-25T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T12:30:00","slug":"striking-virtual-tour-shows-frescoes-painted-by-giotto-700-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2021\/04\/25\/striking-virtual-tour-shows-frescoes-painted-by-giotto-700-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking virtual tour shows frescoes painted by Giotto 700 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to gigapixel scanning technology, it is now possible to view in detail one of the world's most beautiful places from any computer: the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, painted by Italian renaissance artist, Giotto.<\/p>\n<p><em>...It's an opportunity to observe details such as the tears of mothers shed during the massacre of the innocents. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>...Peter's aggression to the servant Malchus during Jesus' arrest. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>...or the face of Jesus at the Last Judgment, in a fresco that is over 20 meters tall. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This series of frescoes painted more than 700 years ago is considered a masterpiece of Western art.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It took Giotto nearly three years to complete them, between 1303 and 1306, and he was helped by about 40 people. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To digitize them, the Italian company Haltadefinizione took 14,000 photographs of the chapel. It took a year to process them all. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The result is impressive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now it is possible to see Judas' kiss up close...<\/p>\n<p>And the scene of the mocking of Jesus...<\/p>\n<p>Or the image of God the Father as he explains to the archangel St. Gabriel the message he must convey to Mary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It's a moving work of art, and an opportunity to better understand the faith, and enjoy the mastery of the Florentine genius Giotto.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>JMB<\/p>\n<p>TR: JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 25, 2021. The Scrovegni Chapel in Padua is a masterpiece of Western art recognized around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SSE3fjbvz5E","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bscrovegnieng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bscrovegniint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}