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Giorgio o Zorzi da Castelfranco, detto Giorgione - The storm
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Giorgio o Zorzi da Castelfranco, detto Giorgione - The old
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Giovanni Bellini - Madonna with child, Madonna with red cherubs
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Tiziano Vecellio, detto Tiziano - Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph between Saints John the Baptist and Catherine of Alexandria
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Lorenzo Lotto - Portrait of a young gentleman
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Jacopo Robusti, detto Tintoretto - San Marco frees a slave
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Paolo Caliari, detto il Veronese - Banquet at Levi's house
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Tiziano Vecellio, detto Tiziano - The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple
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Francesco Hayez - The destruction of the temple in Jerusalem
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Giovanni Antonio Canal, detto Canaletto - Capriccio with ruins and Porta Portello in Padua
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Giovanni Antonio Canal, detto Canaletto - Capriccio with ruins and classical buildings
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Giovanni Antonio Canal, detto Canaletto - Perspective with porch
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Antonio Canova - Bust of Leopoldo Cicognara
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Giovanni Bellini - Madonna of the trees
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Bernardo Strozzi, detto il Cappuccino - Doge Francesco Erizzo
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Vittore Carpaccio - Dream of Ursula
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Giambattista Piazzetta - Guess it
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Antonio Vivarini - Madonna and Child
Giorgio o Zorzi da Castelfranco, detto Giorgione - The storm
Giorgio o Zorzi da Castelfranco, detto Giorgione - The old
Giovanni Bellini - Madonna with child, Madonna with red cherubs
Tiziano Vecellio, detto Tiziano - Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph between Saints John the Baptist and Catherine of Alexandria
Lorenzo Lotto - Portrait of a young gentleman
Jacopo Robusti, detto Tintoretto - San Marco frees a slave
Paolo Caliari, detto il Veronese - Banquet at Levi's house
Tiziano Vecellio, detto Tiziano - The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple
Francesco Hayez - The destruction of the temple in Jerusalem
Giovanni Antonio Canal, detto Canaletto - Capriccio with ruins and Porta Portello in Padua
Giovanni Antonio Canal, detto Canaletto - Capriccio with ruins and classical buildings
Giovanni Antonio Canal, detto Canaletto - Perspective with porch
Antonio Canova - Bust of Leopoldo Cicognara
Giovanni Bellini - Madonna of the trees
Bernardo Strozzi, detto il Cappuccino - Doge Francesco Erizzo
Vittore Carpaccio - Dream of Ursula
Giambattista Piazzetta - Guess it
Antonio Vivarini - Madonna and Child

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The canvas was made by Paolo Veronese for the refectory of the Dominican convent of Santi Giovanni e Paolo to replace a canvas with a similar subject by Titian burned in a fire. The latest in a series of lucky "Dinners", painted by the painter starting from the fifties of the sixteenth century, the work highlights the extraordinary artistic achievements of Veronese, here able to wisely combine elements of theatrical rhetoric with lively moments of sparkling conviviality in a monumental architectural frame. The work is also famous for having been at the center of a famous episode of artistic "censorship" by the Holy Office which accused the painter of heresy for having treated the theme of the Last Supper without proper decorum, transforming it into a banquet and enriching it with unusual presences. In particular, the inquisitors questioned the painter about the choice of including figures such as the servant who loses a nosebleed, the dwarf fool with the parrot and even some "German-armed" halberdiers. In his defense Veronese reaffirmed, with ostentatious naivety, the painter's right to use the imagination and to place figures of "ornament", taking the same license that is granted to poets and "madmen", being however careful to place all the figures more imaginative outside the space occupied by Christ. However, obliged to amend the "errors" contained in the painting, in fact already completed, in three months, the painter opted more simply to modify the subject, transforming what should have been a Last Supper, into a banquet at Levi's house, or rather in a banquet scene, making the reference to the fifth chapter of Luke's Gospel explicit in the foreground.


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