Table Of ContentPAOLO VERONESE
Frontispiece Virgin and Child Enthroned with Sts Joseph, John the Baptist, Jerome,
Francis and Justina, Gallerie deirAccademia, Venice, detail of pi. 7
Paolo Veronese
Piety and Display in an
Age of Religious Reform
Richard Cocke
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Contents
List of figures VII
List of plates XI
Acknowledgements XIII
Introduction i
Early career in Verona i
Venice: the rooms of the Council of Ten in the Ducal Palace:
Daniele Bárbaro 6
Consolidation: the frescos at Villa Bárbaro, Maser 9
Consolidation in Venice: San Sebastiano 15
Recognition and the revival of Venetian tradition i8
When seeing is believing 22
The master narrator - the mature secular narratives 25
The master narrator - the mature religious paintings 34
Late style: the religious paintings 36
Piety and display 41
i From Verona to Venice 49
Venice: the heir of Constantinople and new Rome 51
Change in Venetian society and art 56
Veronese 57
The Venetian patrons 59
Veronese's other patrons ¿5
2 Public display, 1550-65 73
Recognition 73
Veronese and the tradition of the Venetian altarpiece 76
Veronese and the tradition of Venetian ceiling painting 83
San Sebastiano 84
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The ceiling of the Jesuit church of Santa Maria dell'Umiltà 85
Venetian tradition renewed 87
Veronese and Catholic renewal
91
3 Public display, 1566-88 105
The saint as martyr 105
The Council of Trent and the cult of saints 109
The saint as exemplar 111
Veronese and the tradition of the Venetian altarpiece
115
Christ's Baptism and Crucifixion 117
Lavish display in existing churches: San Giacomo, Murano 121
San Nicolò ai Frari; Santa Maria Maggiore 125
The new status 130
4 Paintings for private display 137
Smaller devotional paintings 137
Larger narrative paintings 142
Paintings for camere grandi: the Coccina palace 152
Old and New Testament subjects for the Bonaldi,
Charles Duke of Savoy, Simone Lando and Charles de Croy 154
Individual canvases 159
5 Christ's Feasts and Last Supper 167
Feast in the House of Simon, Turin 167
The Marriage Feast at Cana 168
The Feast in the House of Simon, San Sebastiano and S. Maria dei
Servi 173
Feast of St Gregory the Great, Monte Berico 176
The Feast in the House of Levi, SS Giovanni e Paolo 177
Last Supper, Santa Soffia 182
Catalogue 185
Bibliography 209
Works by Veronese 221
Index 227
Figures
Frontispiece Virgin and Child Enthroned 0.8 Wall of the Stanza del Cane,
with Sts Joseph, John the Baptist, Jerome, showing the Holy Family, Villa Bárbaro,
Francis and Justina, Gallerie deir Maser, fresco (Photo Bõhm)
Accademia, Venice, detail of pi. 7
0.9 Ceiling of sacristy, San
Introduction Sebastiano, Venice, with St Mark,
85 x 240 cm
0.1 Christ Preaching in the Temple,
Museo del Prado, Madrid, dated 0.10 Esther before Ahasuerus, nave
MDXLVIII on the book held by scribe ceiling, San Sebastiano, Venice,
under Christ, 236 x 543 cm 450 x 370 cm
0.2 Temptation of St Anthony, Musée 0.11 Triumph of Mordechai, nave, San
des Beaux-Arts, Caen, 198 x 151 cm Sebastiano, Venice, 500 x 370 cm
0.3 Jupiter Expelling Crimes and Vices, 0.12 Feast in the House of Simon,
from the rooms of the Council of Ten, Gallería Sabauda, Turin, 315 x 451 cm
Ducal Palace, Musée du Louvre, Paris,
0.13 Honor et Virtus Post Mortem Floret,
560 x 330 cm
Frick Collection, New York,
0.4 Portrait of Daniele Bárbaro, 219 x 169.5 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam,
0.14 Omnia Vanitas, Frick Collection,
121 x 105.5 cm
New York, 214 x 167 cm
0.5 Ceiling, Sala deirOlimpo, Villa
0.15 Mars and Venus United by Love,
Bárbaro, Maser, fresco (Photo Bõhm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
0.6 Sala deirOlimpo, with the Good York, John Kennedy Fund, 1910
Samaritan above the entrance to the (10.189), signed PAULUS VERONENIS F,
Stanza del Cane on the right, Villa 205.7 x *6i cm
Bárbaro, Maser, fresco (Photo Bõhm)
0.16 Hermes, Herse and Aglauros,
0.7 Faith, Hope and Charity, ceiling, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of
Stanza della Lucerna, Villa Bárbaro, Cambridge, signed PAULUS
Maser, fresco (Photo Bõhm) CALIAR/VERONESIS FACI,
232 x 173 cm
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0.17 Family of Darius before Alexander, 2.4 View of Marogna chapel, San
National Gallery, London, 336 x 475 cm Paolo, Verona (Photo Brenzoni)
0.18 Justice and Peace before Venice, Sala 2.5 Photomontage, Coccina altar, San
del Collegio, Ducal Palace, Venice, Zaccaria with Virgin and Child appear to
250 x 180 cm Sts John the Baptist and Jerome, Baratta
engraving after Veronese (Photo
0.19 Venice Triumphant, Sala del
Michael Brandon-Jones)
Maggior Consiglio, Ducal Palace,
Venice, 904 x 580 cm 2.6 Photomontage of Petrobelli
altarpiece, Pietà, St Jerome and a Donor,
0.20 Crucifixion, Gallerie
St Anthony Abbot and a Donor, National
deirAccademia, Venice, 287 x 447 cm
Gallery of Canada, no. 3336, purchased
0.21 The Virgin and Child adored by 1925. By permission of the Trustees of
Sts Anne and Joachim, with view of altar, Dulwich College Picture Gallery,
S. Polo, Venice, 350 x 170 cm National Gallery of Scotland,
(Photo Michael Brandon-Jones) Edinburgh
0.22 Miracle of St Pantaleon, San 2.7 Pietà, Hermitage, St Petersburg,
Pantalon, Venice, 277 x 160 cm 147 x 111.5 cm
(Photo Bohrn)
2.8 Adoration of the Shepherds,
Cappella del Rosario, SS Giovanni e
1 From Verona to Venice
Paolo, Venice, 340 x 455 cm
1.1 View of 1562 entrance to sacristy, (Photo Bohrn)
San Zaccaria, Venice (Photo Sarah Cocke)
2.9 Presentation of Christ in the Temple,
1.2 Finding of Moses, Museo del organ, San Sebastiano, Venice,
Prado, Madrid, 50 x 43 cm 490 x 190 cm
1.3 Resurrection, Badoer chapel, 2.10 Photomontage, Christ at the Pool
San Francesco della Vigna, Venice, ofBethesda, organ, San Sebastiano,
325 x 160 cm (Photo Bohrn) Venice, each 245 x 190 cm
1.4 Baptism of Christ, sacristy of the 2.11 SS Geminianus and Severus,
Redentore, Venice, 204 x 102 cm Gallería Estense, Modena, 341 x 240 cm
(Photo Bohrn)
2.12 Virgin and Child appear to Sts
1.5 Queen of Sheba before Solomon, Anthony and Paul, the Chrysler
Gallería Sabauda, Turin, 344 x 545 cm Museum, Norfolk, VA, gift of Walter P.
Chrysler Jr in memory of Delta Viola
2 Public display, 1550-65 Forker Chrysler, 71.527, 285 x 170 cm
2.1 After Paolo Veronese, Christ 2.13 Consecration of St Nicholas,
Raising the Daughter ofjairus, Musée du National Gallery, London, 282 x 170 cm
Louvre, Paris, oil on paper, 42 x 37 cm
2.14 St Jerome, S. Pietro, Murano,
2.2 Transfiguration of Christ, cathedral, 231 x 147 cm
Montagnana, signed PAULO VERO P.,
2.15 Martyrdom of Sts Primus and
535 x 250 cm
Felician, Musei Civici agli Eremitani,
2.3 The Virgin and Child enthroned with Padua, 350 x 190 cm
Antonio and Giovanni Battista Marogna
2.16 St Sebastian Exhorts Sts Mark and
presented by Sts Anthony and John the
Marcellian to their Martyrdom, chancel,
Baptist, San Paolo, Verona, 338 x 208 cm
San Sebastiano, Venice, 355 x 540 cm
Figures ix
2.17 View of chancel of San Sebastiano 3.8 Baptism of Christ, Palazzo Pitti,
with Martyrdom of St Sebastian, 355 x Florence, 196 x 113 cm
540 cm (Photo Bõhm)
3.9 Study for the Baptism of Christ,
2.18 View of south wall of nave with pen, ink and wash drawing, New York
decoration of monks' choir (fresco) and Market, 7.4 x 15.4 cm
Four Apostles (mixed media)
3.10 Crucifixion, San Lazzaro dei
2.19 Detail of verso of Studies for the Mendicanti, Venice, 305 x 165 cm
Martyrdom of St George, with (Photo Alinari)
preparatory drawing for the decorative
3.11 Crucifixion, Museum of Fine Arts,
scroll of San Sebastiano, the J. Paul
Budapest, 149 x 90 cm
Getty Museum, Los Angeles,
83.GA.258, pen, ink and wash 3.12 Adoration of the Magi, Cappella
drawing, 28.9 x 21.7 cm del Rosario, SS Giovanni e Paolo,
Venice, 287 x 447 cm (Photo Bõhm)
2.20 Martyrdom of St George, S. Giorgio
in Braida, Verona, 430 x 300 cm 3.13 Baptism and Temptation of Christ,
(Cameraphoto Arte, Venice) Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan,
248 x 450 cm
3 Public display, 1566-88
3.14 Assumption of the Virgin, Gallerie
3.1 Studies for the Martyrdom of St dell'Accademia, Venice, 398 x 200 cm
George, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los
3.15 Agony in the Garden, Pinacoteca di
Angeles, 83.GA.258, pen, ink and wash
Brera, Milan, 80 x 108 cm
drawing, 28.9 x 21.7 cm
3.16 Coronation of the Virgin, Gallerie
3.2 Martyrdom of St Justina, S.
deirAccademia, Venice, 396 x 219 cm
Giustina, Padua, signed PAULUS
(Photo Bõhm)
CALIARIVERONENSIS F, 525 x 240 cm
(Photo Alinari) 3.17 Modello for the Paradise, Musée
des Beaux-Arts, Lille, 87 x 234 cm
3.3 Modello for the Martyrdom of St
(Photo RMN)
Justina, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los
Angeles, 87.GA.92, pen, ink and wash 3.18 Annunciation, Monastery of El
drawing on blue paper, heightened Escorial, signed and dated MDLXXXIII
with white, 47 x 24 cm PAUL CALIARIUS VERONEN Fe,
470 x 206 cm
3.4 St Barnabas Healing, Musée des
Beaux-Arts, Rouen, 260 x 193 cm
4 Paintings for private display
3.5 St Peter visits St Agatha in prison,
4.1 Virgin and Child with Sts George,
S. Pietro, Murano, inscribed D P V,
Justina and a Donor (Benedetto Guidi[?]),
147 x 231 cm (Photo Bõhm)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, 72 x 90 cm
3.6 Adoration of the Magi, in gallery (Photo RMN)
viewed from the left, the viewpoint of
4.2 Mystic Marriage of St Catherine,
the spectator in San Silvestro, National
Musée Fabre, Montpellier,
Gallery, London, dated M.DLXXIII, on
128 x 129 cm
the lowest step, 355 x 320 cm
4.3 Consecration of David,
3.7 Baptism of Christ, S. Giovanni,
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,
Latisana, 410 x 225 cm (Photo
173 x 364 cm
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