Stefan Arteni

Paolo Caliari Veronese:

tradition and the free play of form

II

SolInvictus Press 2009

 The iconography of
The Marriage at Cana.
A diachronic and
synchronic perspective.
Romanesque capital
The Marriage at Cana
San Juan de la Peña (Huesca)
Jacopo Torriti
The Marriage at Cana
1290s
Fresco
Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi
Anonymous master
Wedding at Cana
Fresco
Hagia Sophia, Trebizond
Anonymous Byzantine master
Marriage at Cana
Mosaic
14th century
Holy Saviour in Chora, Istanbul
Duccio di Buoninsegna
Wedding at Cana
1308-11
Tempera on wood
43,5 x 46,5 cm
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena
Grigor Suk'iasants‘
Marriage Feast of Cana
Gospel, Surkhat, Crimea
1332
Erevan, Matenadaran, MS 7664
Herman de Valenciennes
Marriage Feast of Cana
Roman de Dieu et de sa mere
14th century
Giotto di Bondone
The Marriage at Cana
14th century
Fresco
200 X 185 cm
Italie, Padova, Cappella degli Scrovegni
Giusto de’ Menabuoi
Marriage at Cana
1376-78
Fresco
Baptistry, Padua
Andrea Delitio
Wedding at Cana
about 1465
Fresco
Atri (Teramo), Cathedral
Master of the Catholic Kings
The Marriage at Cana
c. 1495/1497
Oil on panel, 137 x 93 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Gerard David
The Marriage at Cana
c.1500
Oil on wood
100 x 128 cm
Paris, musée du Louvre
Juan De Flandes
The Marriage Feast at Cana
1500
Oil on wood
20 x 15 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Dionisy
Marriage at Cana
1502
Fresco
Cathedral Of The Nativity Of The Virgin,
Ferapontov Monastery, Russia
Hieronymus Bosch
Marriage Feast at Cana
-
Oil on panel, 93 x 72 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Flemish school
The Marriage at Cana
16th century
Oil on wood
59.x 36 cm
Paris, musée du Louvre
Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen
The Marriage at Cana
c. 1530
Oil on panel, 66 x 85 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi)
The Marriage at Cana
1531
Oil on canvas
306 x 248 cm
St Petersburg, Hermitage museum
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
The Marriage at Cana
1561
Oil on canvas
435 x 535 cm
Chiesa di Santa Maria della Salute, Venezia
Marten de Vos
The Marriage at Cana
1596-97
Oil on panel
268 x 235 cm
O.-L. Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp
Leandro Bassano
Marriage at Cana
16th century
Oil on canvas
127 x 203 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
The iconography of the
Supper at Emmaus.
A diachronic and
synchronic perspective.
Plaque with Emmaus Scenes
c. 860–880
Carolingian
Ivory
11.4 x 23.5 cm
The Cloisters Collection
Marco Marziale
Supper at Emmaus
1506
Panel
122 x 141 cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Albrecht Dürer
Small Passion. Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus
1511
Woodcut
British Museum, London
Vittore Carpaccio
Supper at Emmaus
1513
San Salvador church, Venice
Jacopo Pontormo
Supper at Emmaus
1525
Oil on canvas
230 x 173 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Tiziano Vecellio
Supper at Emmaus
c.1530
Oil on canvas
169 x 244 cm
Paris, musée du Louvre
Jacopo Bassano
Supper at Emmaus
c. 1538
Oil on canvas
235 x 250 cm
Sacristy, Parish Church, Cittadella
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
The Supper at Emmaus
1542-43
Oil on canvas
156 x 212 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Francesco Bassano
The Supper at Emmaus
16th century
Oil on canvas
153 x 207 cm
Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial,
El Escorial, Madrid
Paintings by the Presumed Teachers
of Paolo Veronese
 Antonio Badile

Antonio Badile Antonio Badile

Giovanni Francesco Caroto

Giovanni Francesco Caroto

Giovanni Francesco Caroto

Giovanni Francesco Caroto

Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Giovanni Francesco Caroto
The Grand Decoration
Antonio Fasolo, Villa Caldogno, Caldogno
Giovanni Battista Zelotti
Villa Caldogno, Caldogno
before 1570

Giovanni Battista Zelotti

Villa Emo (designed by Palladio)
Fanzolo
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)
Defence of Brescia
1584
Oil on canvas
Palazzo Ducale, Venice
ANDREA PALLADIO’S VILLA BARBARO, MASER,
decorated with frescos by Paolo Veronese

un rilievo o un intaglio,
la ricchezza –
distinguiamo dunque tra
decorazione e decorativo
Mario Sironi

(a relief or an intaglio,
the richness –
let us then distinguish between
decoration and the decorative)

Latin formosus (“beautifully formed”), from forma (“form,

shape”) + the adjective suffix -osus (“full of”)
Views of the
Sala a Crociera
1560-61
Fresco
Villa Barbaro
Maser
View into the Cruciform Sala a Crociera
1560-61
Frescos and plaster decoration
Villa Barbaro, Maser
Illusory Door
1560-61
Fresco
Villa Barbaro, Maser
View from the Sala
dell'Olimpo,
facing east
1560-61
Fresco
Villa Barbaro, Maser
Ceiling of the Sala dell'Olimpo
1560-1561
Fresco and plaster decoration
Villa Barbaro, Maser
Paintings by Paolo Veronese
in San Sebastiano, Venice
Martyrdom of St Sebastian
1558
Fresco
350 x 480 cm
San Sebastiano, Venice
St Sebastian Reproving Diocletian
1558
Fresco
350 x 480 cm
San Sebastiano, Venice
St Sebastian
1558
Fresco
270 x 130 cm
San Sebastiano, Venice
Annunciation
1558
Fresco
San Sebastiano, Venice
Healing of the Lame Man at the Pool of Bethesda
1560
Oil on canvas
490 x 190 cm
San Sebastiano, Venice
Paintings by Paolo Veronese
in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice
Ceiling decoration (detail)
1578-82
Oil on canvas
Palazzo Ducale, Venice
Apotheosis of Venice
about 1579
Drawing and tempera on paper
525 x 350 cm
Leeds, Harewood House Trust, Collection Earl of Harewood
Apotheosis of Venice
about 1579-1582
Oil on canvas
904 x 580 cm
Venice, Palazzo Ducale, Salla del Maggior Consiglio
Conquest of Smyrna
1585
Oil on canvas
Palazzo Ducale, Venice
Siege of Scutari
1585
Oil on canvas
Palazzo Ducale, Venice
Paintings by Paolo Veronese in the
Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary,
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Adoration of the Shepherds
1558
Oil on canvas
350 x 290 cm
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
Assumption
1558
Oil on canvas
910 x 455 cm
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
Annunciation
1558
Oil on canvas
340 x 455 cm
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
 Paolo Veronese:
Paintings of Feasts (Banquets)
Supper in the House of Simon
c. 1560
Oil on canvas
315 x 451 cm
Galleria Sabauda, Turin
Study for Supper at Emmaus
Drawing
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer
Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett - Sammlung
der Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, Berlin
Study for Supper at Emmaus (on the right)
Drawing
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer
Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett - Sammlung der
Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, Berlin
Supper in Emmaus
c. 1560
Oil on canvas
242 x 416 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Supper in Emmaus, detail
The Marriage at Cana
Drawing
Musée du Louvre, Paris
The Marriage at Cana
1563
Oil on canvas
666 x 990 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Feast at the House of Simon
1567-70
Oil on canvas
275 x 710 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Feast at the House of Simon
1570-72
Oil on canvas
454 x 874 cm
Musée National du Château, Versailles
Studies for The Marriage in Cana
Drawing
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin -
Preußischer Kulturbesitz,
Kupferstichkabinett - Sammlung
der Zeichnungen und
Druckgraphik, Berlin
Wedding at Cana
1571-72
Oil on canvas
207 x 457 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Wedding at Cana
Oil on canvas
127 x 209 cm
Museo del Prado. Madrid.
Feast at the House of Levi
1573
Oil on canvas
555 x 1280 cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Last Supper
Drawing
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Last Supper
c. 1585
Oil on canvas
220 x 523 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Paolo Veronese: Portraits
Livia da Porto Thiene and her Daughter Porzia
about 1551-1552
Oil on canvas
208 x 121 cm
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
Isabella Gurrieri Gonzaga Canossa
about 1547-1548
Oil on canvas
115 x 95 cm
Musee du Louvre, Paris
Portrait of a Young Man Wearing Lynx Fur
about 1560
Oil on canvas
120 x 102 cm
Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, Budapest
Paolo Veronese, Master of Form
1550
1555
 1557

Fresco, 1560-1561
 Undated, 1560-1565?
Diagrams by Davide
Girardi
www.naturacquario.net/
.../girardi/girardi.htm
1560-1565
1570
1575
1580
1582
1580-1583
Undated