GIOTTO

Not far from Venice is the little Scrovegni Chapel where Giotto’s beautiful frescoes can be found. Painted in 1303, they’re still there for us to marvel at the bibilical story and gorgeous blue ceiling. So, after praying to Saint Anthony and dutifully viewing his larynx and other relics, we headed to the lovely park to await our ‘slot’. Before you’re actually allowed to view the frescoes, there is a strict protocol to be followed whereby you are locked in a ‘sterile’ ante-chamber and then fed through, supposedly sanitised, into the Chapel. This is in order to try to protect the delicate atmosphere of the Chapel. ‘Organised chaos’ would be a very kind way of describing this procedure but it was worth it to see the beautiful colours and perspective and ‘plasticisation’ of the draperies.