The Scrovegni family built and commissioned Giotto to decorate Arena Chapel in penance for their usurious practices, which gained one of their members (Reginaldo) placement in Dante’s seventh level of his Inferno. Discuss the irony reflected in the chapel’s existence and lavishness.
Please use Ch 13 of The Humanities: Culture, Continuity and Change, Third Edition by Henry M. Sayre. and one additional sources