The wooden ceiling of the Salon of the Biblioteca (Libreria) Marciana contains twenty-one canvases painted between 1556 and 1559 by seven different artists including Veronese, chosen, according to the records, by Jacopo Sansovino and Titian. The side walls are also richly decorated with canvases by various hands representing the Philosophers. Paolo Veronese did the two beside the portal, Plato and Aristotle.
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 |