Veronese made his artistic debut in the Palazzo Ducale as assistant of the painter Giovan Battista Ponchino in 1554-55 when, at the age of twenty-six, in the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci he painted canvases for the gilded wood ceiling which was constructed in the previous years. Veronese's main paintings on the ceiling are the Jupiter Hurling Thunderbolts at the Vices (oval, now in the Louvre, replaced here by a nineteenth-century copy), Aged Oriental with a Young Woman (oval), Juno Showering Gifts on Venetia (rectangular), and The Triumph of Virtue over Vice (rectangular).

Preview	Picture Data	File Info	Comment
	View of the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci c. 1551 Oil on canvas Palazzo Ducale, Venice	869*700 True Color 123 Kb
	Jupiter Hurling Thunderbolts at the Vices 1554-56 Oil on canvas, 560 x 330 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris	900*1517 True Color 164 Kb
	Aged Oriental with a Young Woman 1554-56 Oil on canvas, 286 x 150 cm Palazzo Ducale, Venice	950*1766 True Color 191 Kb
	Juno Showering Gifts on Venetia 1554-56 Oil on canvas, 365 x 147 cm Palazzo Ducale, Venice	732*1800 True Color 192 Kb
	Juno Showering Gifts on Venetia (detail) 1554-56 Oil on canvas Palazzo Ducale, Venice	1000*1311 True Color 196 Kb
	The Triumph of Virtue over Vice 1554-56 Oil on canvas, 295 x 165 cm Palazzo Ducale, Venice	1000*1643 True Color 175 Kb