The Bardi Chapel is the first on the right of the Cappella Maggiore of the Santa Croce Basilica in Florence. It contains a cycle of dry wall paintings by Giotto, dating from around 1325 and dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi.
Built around ten years after the nearby Peruzzi Chapel, it was commissioned by the rich Florentine merchants and bankers of the Bardi family and is considered the artistic testament of the great painter, in which there is a summary of his pictorial work, although the paintings are ruined in several places due to various factors occurring over time, starting with the painting technique, largely dry, due to the need to contain execution times at a time when the painter , famous throughout Italy and beyond, he could not meet all the requests, delegating many to the store.
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