Palazzo della Ragione, Gothic chapel in Palazzo della Ragione, Verona, Italy

The Cappella dei Notai, inside Verona's Palazzo della Ragione, is a late-Gothic chapel of three communicating rooms with sail vaults on pointed arches. Its walls and ceilings carry the painted cycle made between the late 17th century and 1703, with perspective quadrature by Andrea Zanoni and figures by Alessandro Marchesini, Giambattista Bellotti, Sante Prunati and Louis Dorigny.

In 1408 the podestà Nicolò Zorzi and the captain Bartolomeo Morosini granted the notaries' college use of the chapel of San Zeno, which was then also dedicated to their patron saint Daniel. Restoration work ran until 1419. In 1650 the weight of prisons built above caused part of the ceilings to collapse, destroying the original decorations; the present cycle dates from works completed in 1703 and restored after the 1723 fire that destroyed the Masseria tower.

The chapel bears the name of the notaries whose guild once conducted business here. Its decorations show how religious faith and city administration were closely intertwined in medieval times.

The chapel is open Tuesday through Sunday, allowing visitors to explore the interior with its historic ornaments. Its location between two well-known squares makes it easy to find and visit.

The prisons above the chapel caused part of its ceilings to collapse in 1650, destroying the original decorations; the present cycle dates from works finished in 1703. After the 1723 fire destroyed the Torre della Masseria, the tower was cut down and rebuilt just above the chapel, which survived almost intact.