Veronese

Wedding at Cana — Venetian spectacle

The painter of magnificence. His enormous feast scenes — The Wedding at Cana, Feast in the House of Levi — fill vast canvases with shimmering fabrics, classical architecture, and hundreds of figures in a celebration of Venetian splendor. The Inquisition summoned him for putting dogs and Germans in a Last Supper; he simply changed the title.

Key works

• Wedding at Cana1563— The largest painting in the Louvre
  Louvre, Paris
• Feast in the House of Levi1573— Renamed after the Inquisition objected
  Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

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