VERONESE, Paolo
(b. 1528, Verona, d. 1588, Venezia)

View of the Sala del Collegio

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Oil on canvas
Palazzo Ducale, Venice

The picture shows a view toward the throne of the Hall of the College in the Doge's Palace. The wooden gilded ceiling frames a series of works by Veronese painted between 1578 and 1582. Veronese's commemorative painting of the Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto can be seen above the throne. The paintings on the walls, above the sculpted and gilded wooden wainscot, were executed by Tintoretto and his workshop between 1581 and 1584.