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Oratory of St. George

Religious buildings

Built in 1377 it was painted by Altichiero da Zevio for the Marquis Raimondino Lupi di Soragna as a family mausoleum.

Inside still intact the fresco decoration that entirely covers the walls with the stories of the life of Christ and St. George depicted, but there is no lack of personalities from the Lupi family celebrated in their nobility.
The frescoed cycle develops within large frames that connect the real space to the simulated one of the paintings.

The scenes are organized in two superimposed registers covered by the barrel vault divided into three spans by painted decorative bands. The quality of the paintings, the perspective solutions, the adherence to the real data make this cycle such an innovative masterpiece that it anticipates the fifteenth-century spatial research.


Site included in the Unesco World Heritage List.

Opening hours:
Tuesday – Sunday 9 am – 1 am / 2 pm – 6 pm

Closed:
Monday, Christmas and New year’s day

 

Single individual ticket for the three sites (Antonian Museum and Museum of Popular Devotion, Oratory of St. George, School of the Saint (Scoletta): full € 10

Reduced (groups min. 15 people, students, teachers, conventions (where applicable) € 7

Single ticket Family € 20

Free: minors under 6, disabled and accompanying persons, religious/and, military, tour guides accompanying a group, group leaders.

Mid-March Sunday when the Basilica of the Saint gives thanks for the service of Pope Francis (if museum sites are scheduled to open) and Oct. 4 (Solemnity of St. Francis) free admission for all.

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Piazza del Santo, PADOVA
http://www.santantonio.org
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