Paintings in the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci (1575-82)
by Paolo VERONESE

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



Ceiling decoration (detail)
c. 1551
Oil on canvas
Palazzo Ducale, Venice

1234*900
True Color
261 Kb



Jupiter Hurling Thunderbolts at the Vices
1554-56
Oil on canvas, 560 x 330 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

901*1400
True Color
234 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

700*1245
True Color
166 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



Ceiling of the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci (detail)
c. 1551
Oil on canvas
Palazzo Ducale, Venice

700*1313
True Color
159 Kb




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