Ovetari
The Ovetari Chapel, or Cappella Ovetari, is a 15th-century fresco cycle within the Church of Santa Maria degli Eremitani in Padua, Italy. It is named after the Ovetari family, patrons who funded the project and helped shape the chapel’s artistic program. The cycle is regarded as one of the earliest large-scale narrative fresco programs in northern Italy.
The frescoes were created in the 1440s and early 1450s, principally by Andrea Mantegna and his workshop,
World War II brought extensive damage to the Eremitani complex when Padua was bombed in 1944; most
Today the Ovetari Chapel is examined as a pivotal early example of Mantegna’s approach to narrative cycles