Why it matters
Painted as a Last Supper, this enormous banquet full of 'buffoons, drunken Germans, dwarfs and other such scurrilities' led the Inquisition to summon Veronese for irreverence. Instead of changing the painting, he changed the title to a different Gospel feast.
Did you know?
- At 555 by 1,309 cm it is one of the largest canvases of the 16th century.
- It replaced a Titian Last Supper destroyed by fire in 1571.
- It was painted in 1573 for the refectory of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice.
Based on the Wikipedia article The Feast in the House of Levi (CC BY-SA 4.0).
