Veronese (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the House of the Leper, and his Feast at the House of Simon. These four pictures are known under the name of the four Feasts. Two of them belong to France and hang in the museum of the Louvre, in the room known by the name of the Salon Carre; these are the Feast at the House of Simon the Pharisee and the Wedding at Cana. THE WEDDING AT CANA Veronese has treated this subject twice. Accordingly the picture in the Louvre must not be confounded with that of the same name in the Brera museum at Milan. In spite of the value of the latter, it bears no comparison to the gigantic canvas in the national museum of France. This picture of the Wedding at Cana was painted by Veronese for the refectory of the convent of San Giorgio Maggiore, on the island that faces the Riva dei Schiavoni. It remained there until the time of Napoleon's Italian Campaign. Bonaparte, who loved the arts without understanding them, laid profane hands on the PLATE V. -- THE FAMILY OF DARIUS (In the National Gallery, London) This picturesque painting is one of the most curious of all Veronese's works. It was painted in return for the hospitality which he received from the Pisani family, and all the figures in it are portraits of members of the household. Another point worthy of note is the anachronism of the warriors clad in Roman armour standing before the kneeling women, who are dressed in the manner of the sixteenth century. PIEHHE L. FITTE a CIE. PARIS great majority of Italian masterpieces. This painting by Veronese was one of the number, and found a place in the Louvre. The treaty of 1815 obliged France to restore these treasures, but the Austrian commissioners, appointed to accomplish the restitution, became alarmed at the difficulties of transportation which the Wedding at Cana pr...