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The Kiss of Judas (Scrovegni) — Giotto
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The Kiss of Judas (Scrovegni)

Giotto (Italian, c. 1267–1337)
Date c. 1305
Collection Cappella degli Scrovegni, Musei Civici di Padova
Subject The Betrayal of Christ
Season Ordinary Time
Master 6,764 px
License PD/CC0
Attribution Cappella degli Scrovegni, Musei Civici di Padova · S.n.

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Giotto
Medium Affresco
Dimensions Altezza: 200 cm ca. Larghezza: 200 cm ca.
Holding Cappella degli Scrovegni, Musei Civici di Padova · S.n.

Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.

The file this print is made from

Source Giotto - Scrovegni - -31- - Kiss of Judas.jpg
Master 6,764 px on the long edge
Rights PD/CC0 — the photograph as well as the painting

Sizes

16×20 in$110
sheet 20×16 in · image 19.5×16 in · archival margin · 347 dpi
18×24 in$140
sheet 24×18 in · image 22×18 in · archival margin · 308 dpi
24×36 in$190
sheet 36×24 in · image 29.3×24 in · archival margin · 231 dpi
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About this painting

It is the most crowded moment in the chapel. Around the two still faces a tumult breaks out — staves, lances and torches crossing against the blue — and at the left edge Peter has already taken hold of a servant and is cutting off his ear. Only John names that servant: Malchus. Giotto painted the whole cycle in roughly two years, finishing around 1305, in a chapel dedicated to Santa Maria della Carità and listed by UNESCO in 2021.

Sources: Cappella degli Scrovegni official site and Padova Cultura (Comune di Padova), with Vatican News, 'Giotto e la Passione' (2019), quoting Roberto Filippetti; all read 2026-08-27.

And forthwith coming to Jesus, he said: Hail, Rabbi. And he kissed him.

Matthew 26:49 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js

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Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 6,764 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.