Giotto: Despair and Envy

the vices of Despair and Envy on Giotto Grisailles in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua

Below the narrative bands, Giotto painted fourteen allegorical figures in grisaille—the Seven Virtues and Seven Vices. These figures, rendered in a sculptural monochrome style, provide a moral framework grounded in ethical choice.

Here the vices of Despair and Envy