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).
Summary of paintings by Paolo Veronese |
Religious themes |
1540s | 1550s | 1560s | 1570s | 1580s |
San Sebastiano | Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary |
Great decorations |
Banquet scenes | Villa Barbaro | Palazzo Ducale | Biblioteca Marciana |
Mythological and allegorical themes |
Historical and Old Testament themes |
Portraits |