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The Feast in the House of Levi or Christ in the House of Levi is a 1573 oil painting by Italian painter Paolo Veronese and one of the largest canvases of the 16th century, measuring 555 cm × 1,309 cm (18.21 ft × 42.95 ft). [1] It is now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, in Venice.
Paolo Caliari (1528 – 19 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese (/ ˌ v ɛr ə ˈ n eɪ z eɪ,-z i / VERR-ə-NAY-zay, -zee, US also /-eɪ s i /-see; Italian: [ˈpaːolo veroˈneːze,-eːse]), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573).
The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee is an oil-on-canvas painting by Paolo Veronese, completed in 1570 for San Sebastiano, a Hieronymite monastery in Venice. He also produced a cycle of works for the monastery church (still in place), where he was later buried. [ 1 ]
The famous The Feast in the House of Levi, painted for the refectory, is now in the Accademia Gallery. Alessandro Vittoria (St Jerome in the north aisle) Alvise Vivarini (Christ carrying the Cross in the sacristy) Bartolomeo Vivarini (Three Saints in the north aisle)
The Feast in the House of Levi; The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee (Veronese, Milan) The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee (Veronese, Turin)
Yet the chauvinist curator of the Musée Napoléon, Vivant Denon, falsely claimed that Veronese's canvas was too fragile to travel from Paris to Venice, and Canova excluded The Wedding Feast at Cana from repatriation to Italy, and, in its stead, sent to Venice the Feast at the House of Simon (1653), by Charles Le Brun. [15]
The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee is a c.1565 oil-on-canvas painting by Veronese, now in the Galleria Sabauda, in Turin.. The work was commissioned by the monks of Santi Nazaro e Celso in Verona for their refectory [1] It was one of a series of monumental "Feasts" for monastery refectories of monasteries in Venice - The Wedding at Cana for San Giorgio Maggiore (now in the Louvre ...
Cecil Gould was the first to point out that in 1573 Veronese also completed works including the enormous The Feast in the House of Levi and a large Madonna del Rosario (both now in the Accademia, Venice), suggesting "that this fact alone would support the idea that there was a large degree of studio participation."