Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
San Sebastiano Nave Decoration; Banishment of Vashti
Alternate Title:
Repudiation of Vashti
Image View:
General view shown with ceiling stuccowork
Creator:
Paolo Veronese (Italian painter, 1528-1588)
Location:
repository: San Sebastiano (Venice, Veneto, Italy)
Location Note:
Campo di San Sebastiano, Rio di San Basilio
GPS:
45.432 12.32
Date:
1556 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance; Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
ceiling
Work Type 2:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
500 cm (height) x 370 cm (width)
Relation Work:
partOf San Sebastiano Nave Decoration
Subjects:
Old Testament and Apocrypha; rulers and leaders; Venetian
Description:
Following a commission by Prior Bernardo Torlioni, the Verona-born painter Paolo Veronese spent three periods between 1555 and 1570 decorating various parts of the interior of San Sebastiano. One theme is the Book of Esther, shown in the three large paintings on the ceiling of the nave: Esther Crowned by Ahasuerus (rectangular, in the center), The Triumph of Mordecai (oval), and The Banishment of Vashti (oval). Veronese's biographer Carlo Ridolfi identified the picture as Esther confronting Ahasuerus, but a different interpretation is now more widely accepted. Only when the Persian king Ahasuerus had repudiated his disobedient wife Vashti did he choose Esther as his wife. This scene is the moment of repudiation. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
6A1-VERON-SS-A-A04
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

San Sebastiano Nave Decoration; Banishment of Vashti