Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Feast in the House of Levi
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Feast in the House of Levi
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Alternate Title:
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Last Supper
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Image View:
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Detail, elaborate architecture shown in the background of the left arch
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Creator:
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Paolo Veronese (Italian painter, 1528-1588)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria dell'Accademia (Venice, Veneto, Italy) Cat. 203
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Location Note:
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Campo della Carità, Dorsoduro 1050
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GPS:
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+45.4315+12.3281
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Date:
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1573 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Renaissance; Sixteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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5.55 m (height) x 12.80 m (width)
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Subjects:
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architecture; genre; New Testament; Apostles; Dominicans; Jesus Christ
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Description:
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The Feast in the House of Levi was commissioned to replace a Last Supper (of Titian that perished in a fire) in the Dominican refectory of SS Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. A tripartite arcade, Palladian in proportion and detail, frames the whole, presenting the upper room as an open loggia with the banisters of the lateral staircases leading the eye to Christ at the center, framed by the arch. The steps resemble those leading to the raised sanctuaries sometimes found in Romanesque churches of North Italy, thus associating the center with the sanctuary and the table with the altar (Rosand, 1973). The sacred figures are thus isolated from the wealth of incident around them but the picture nonetheless attracted the attention of the Inquisition, which sensed heresy in having 'drunken buffoons, armed Germans, dwarfs, and similar scurrilities' present at the Last Supper. Veronese was ordered to correct his composition, to which he ultimately responded by changing its title to Feast in the House of Levi, a subject requiring 'a great company of publicans' (Luke 5:29) (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-VERON-BHL-A25
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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