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The Choice Between Virtue and Vice and Wisdom and Strength have traveled together since their creation, through many prestigious owners and collections. Because of this, many scholars assumed that Veronese painted them as a pair. In 1970, Edgar Munhall was the first scholar to suggest that they were simply made at the same time, not as pendants ...
The Allegory of Virtue and Vice and Wisdom and Strength have traveled together since their creation, through many prestigious owners and collections. Because of this, many scholars assumed that Veronese painted them as a pair. In 1970, Edgar Munhall was the first scholar to suggest that they were simply made at the same time, not as pendants. [2]
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 (Veronese, Milan) The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee (Veronese, Turin) The Finding of Moses (Veronese, Washington) The Finding of Moses (Veronese, Dijon) The Finding of Moses (Veronese, Dresden) The Finding of Moses (Veronese, Lyon) The Finding of Moses (Veronese, Madrid)
The other two are at the Frick Collection in New York: The Allegory of Virtue and Performance and Allegory of the Source of Wisdom and Power. [1] It deals with the romantic love of the Roman goddess of love Venus and the god of war Mars, as described in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
The Duke of Buckingham series is a 1590s cycle of Old and New Testament paintings by Paolo Veronese and his workshop. They were acquired in Venice in 1595 by Charles de Croy, then duke of Aarschot, and moved to his castle at Beaumont.
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine is a c.1575 oil-on-canvas painting by Paolo Veronese, produced as the high altarpiece for Santa Caterina church in Venice. It remained there until the First World War, during which it was moved to its present home in the city's Gallerie dell'Accademia [ 1 ]
In The Wedding Feast at Cana, Veronese represents the water-into-wine miracle of Jesus in the grand style of the sumptuous feasts of food and music that were characteristic of 16th-century Venetian society; [3] the sacred in and among the profane world where “banquet dishes not only signify wealth, power, and sophistication, but transfer ...