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Reflections, precursors, anticipations
 
COSTS PROTAGONISTS WHY AND WHEREFORE
DISCOVERIES DOCUMENTATION PREVIOUS RESTORATION
   

"THE MOST SOVEREIGN MASTER THERE HAS EVER BEEN IN PAINTING "

We only have space to cite a few examples among the cases of anticipations or of outright borrowing from the decorations of the Scrovegni Chapel on the part of some great painters.

   
The soldiers asleep at the foot of the tomb of the risen Christ. These can be found in the same scene painted by Pietro Lorenzetti in the lower basilica of St. Francis as well as the one by Piero della Francesca in the painting gallery of Sansepolcro.
   
The innocent victim on the pile of impaled corpses, seen in foreshortening from the viewpoint of the head, that was to inspire Mantegna's Dead Christ in the Brera Museum.
   
The bitter and disillusioned suitor who breaks the switch that did not flower in the scene of the Holy Virgin's Wedding with Joseph. The scene is reproduced as a mirror image in Raphael's The Holy Virgin's Wedding with Joseph.
   
The damned person, bent forwards, was certainly present in Michelangelo's mind when painting the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel.
   
The play of space of the lances, spears, halberds, torches, clubs, etc. has inspired, among others, Diego Velazquez in the Siege of Breda ("Le lance")
   
The cold and metallic colour with which Giotto has depicted Lucifer in Hell, and which the Mexican muralists certainly remembered, beginning with Siqueiros and several 20th century artists (e.g. Sironi).