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[1] As an allegory, the job of this painting is to convey a moral message, that of the superiority of virtue over vice. The genre of allegory contrasts with Veronese's well-known tableaus of historical and biblical scenes, such as the Marriage at Cana as well as with the less formal works of other Renaissance Venetian painters like Giorgione or ...
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.
From Veronese's mature phase, 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) and another The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee for Santi Nazaro e Celso (now in Turin) were earlier works in the series. [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 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]
In this composition, Veronese did not use linear perspective but, rather, chose to have diagonals converging at different points instead of at a single vanishing point. [2] It is likely that Veronese went against linear perspective due to concerns about the large surface the painting was to take up, as well as the many different angles from ...
Allegory of Justice; The Allegory of Love (Veronese) Allegory of Music; Allegory of Patience (Vasari) Allegory of Prudence; Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto; Allegory of the Element Earth; An Allegory of the Old and New Testaments; An Allegory of Truth and Time; Allegory of Vice (Correggio) Allegory of Virtue (Correggio) Allegory of Virtue and ...
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine is an oil painting on canvas of c. 1547–1550 by the Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese. It was in the Liechtenstein Collection by 1767 [ 1 ] and was acquired in 1926 by Catherine Barker Spaulding Hickox, who in 1970 bequeathed it to its present owner, the Barker Welfare Foundation.