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OCR: Giotto di Bondone: 3.37 Florentine painter who frequently worked in Assisi although his best known murals are in the Scrovegni or Arena Chapel in Padua In the thirteenth centur Enrico Scrovegni commis sioned Giotto ta design and execute an ambitious fresco cycle that included scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary and Christ Scrovegni financed the private chapel 96 part f his elaborate palace complex that was located atop an an cient Roman arena The private nature of the commission might have encouraged Giatto to innavate while he was executing traditional biblical motifs like the Adoration ofthe Magi This traditional Christian theme of three Eastern king paying hormage to the swaddled Christ child some- times includes the guiding Star af Bethlehem above the manger Giotto however suhstitu ...