Virgin and Child with Saints by BONIFACIO VERONESE

BONIFACIO VERONESE

(b. 1487, Verona, d. 1557, Venezia)

	Virgin and Child with Saints 1525-30 Oil on panel, 86 x 139 cm Collezione Mestrovich, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice
In the background, the painting contrasts the dying pagan world with the new City of God, here celebrated in the guise of Venice. The represented saints in the foreground are Catherine, Peter, John the Baptist, and Jerome.