Music in the venues of Padova Urbs picta

The first project of our association is dedicated to our city, Padua, on the occasion of the UNESCO candidacy: Padova Urbs picta. Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel and the pictorial cycles of the fourteenth century.

The project, in collaboration with the Municipality of Padua and the Candidacy Committee, consists in the creation of music videos in which professional artists put their music in dialogue with the fourteenth-century frescoes in the UNESCO candidate sites.

The project is driven not only by love for Padua and its beauties, but also by the strong desire to bring them into dialogue with music from various eras and origins. The message is clear and modern: the maximum cultural expressions of a society are reached through scientific and artistic dialogue, just as seven centuries ago Giotto painted Halley’s comet, discovered by the English astronomer only a few years earlier.
Thus the compositional genius of authors such as J.S. Bach, Chopin and Barrios, the poetry of traditional music and the contemporary freshness of original music resonate in the eight fourteenth-century art sites.