The Chapel of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Padua is part of the exhibition itinerary of the Diocesan Museum, inside the prestigious rooms of the Bishop’s Palace (1309). It was built in 1495 at the behest of Bishop Pietro Barozzi as part of the Renaissance renovation of the bishopric. The direction of the works was entrusted to Lorenzo da Bologna, the most important architect active in Padua at that time, and the fresco decoration was carried out by Prospero da Piazzola and Jacopo da Montagnana. The frescoes, carried out according to an iconographic programme centred on the Apostles’ Creed, dictated by the Bishop himself, constitute as a whole a manifestation in images of the theology of Salvation, founded on Christ’s redemption and on the apostolicity of the Church. Fulcrum of the small but suggestive space of the chapel is the triptych painted by Jacopo da Montagnana, placed in the apse and depicting the Annunciation, flanked by the archangels Michael and Raphael.
