{"id":124836,"date":"2021-12-15T19:52:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T18:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apartmentspadova.it\/padova-urbs-picta-the-app-to-discover-the-frescoed-cycles-in-the-14th-century\/"},"modified":"2022-06-10T18:53:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T16:53:41","slug":"padova-urbs-picta-the-app-to-discover-the-frescoed-cycles-in-the-14th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apartmentspadova.it\/en\/padova-urbs-picta-the-app-to-discover-the-frescoed-cycles-in-the-14th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Padova Urbs picta: the app to discover the frescoed cycles in the 14th century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With \u201cPadova Urbs picta\u201d, Padua and its fourteenth-century pictorial cycle has become a UNESCO heritage site.<\/p>\n\n

A unique itinerary in the world also available in an app that we recommend you download to discover all the secrets of the eight Paduan sites of universal value.<\/p>\n

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Padova Urbs picta: widespread wonders, in the heart of the historic center <\/h2>\n\n

With the inscription of “Padova Urbs picta” in the World Heritage List, Veneto today is the Italian region with the largest number of UNESCO sites: nine.<\/p>\n\n

In turn Padua is one of the few cities in the world to keep two of them. Our city, in fact, has already been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, thanks to the extraordinary Botanical Garden of the University<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Now, with Urbs picta<\/a>, it doubles its prestige. The fourteenth-century cycle of Paduan frescoes<\/strong>, in fact, for UNESCO:<\/p>\n\n

The cycle of frescoes<\/em> illustrates a completely new way of representing narration in painting, with new spatial perspectives influenced by advances in the science of optics and a new ability to represent human figures, in all their characteristics, including feelings and emotions. These innovations mark a new era in the history of art, producing an irreversible change of direction. <\/em><\/pre>\n\n
Starting from Giotto with his frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel<\/a> up to Jacopo da Verona and passing through Guariento, Giusto de’ Menabuoi, Altichiero da Zevio and Jacopo Avanzi, here are all eight sites<\/strong> that you cannot miss. <\/p>\n\n
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Scrovegni Chapel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Baptistery of the Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Chapel of the Carrarese Palace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Oratory of San Michele<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Basilica and convent of the Saint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Palazzo della Ragione<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Church of Saints Philip and James in the Eremitani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Oratory of San Giorgio<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n\n
You will have before your eyes an immense artistic heritage<\/strong> that in the fourteenth century made Padua the protagonist of the renewal of European figurative language, thanks to a set of masterpieces created between 1305 and 1397 that revolutionized the history of art<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n
The Padova Urbs picta App: this is how it works<\/h2>\n\n
The \u201cPadova Urbs picta\u201d app<\/a>, developed for Android<\/strong> and iOS <\/strong>systems, is structured in three parts: historical-artistic, tourist, and a game complete with a quiz.<\/p>\n\n
A multimedia, multilingual, accessible and interactive tool, which can be modulated according to your needs<\/strong>, which will allow you to easily reach and discover the eight Unesco sites of the fourteenth-century frescoed cycles in Padua.<\/p>\n\n