Paintings in the Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary, Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo (1558-80)
by Paolo VERONESE

The Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary was destroyed by fire in 1867. The gilded wooden ceiling with its paintings by Tintoretto, Palma Giovane and Leandro Corona, as well as 34 other paintings displayed on the walls were lost. The restored chapel was reopened only in 1959. In the new carved ceiling of the nave, three oval paintings by Veronese, which were once in the deconsecrated church of the Umiltà on the Zattere, were inset: the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Assumption, and the Annunciation. The walls are decorated with many paintings from the 16th-17th centuries, among them another version of the Adoration of the Shepherds by Veronese. The ceiling of the chancel of the chapel contains works by Veronese coming from the deconsacrated church of San Nicolò in Lattuga.


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Adoration of the Shepherds
1558
Oil on canvas, 350 x 290 cm
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice


Adoration of the Shepherds
1558
Oil on canvas, 350 x 290 cm
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice


Assumption
1558
Oil on canvas, 910 x 455 cm
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice


Assumption
1558
Oil on canvas, 910 x 455 cm
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice


Assumption (detail)
1558
Oil on canvas
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice


Annunciation
1558
Oil on canvas, 340 x 455 cm
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice


Annunciation
1558
Oil on canvas, 340 x 455 cm
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice


Adoration of the Magi
1582
Oil on canvas
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice


Adoration of the Shepherds
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Oil on canvas
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice



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



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