VERONESE, Paolo
(b. 1528, Verona, d. 1588, Venezia)

Feast in the House of Levi (detail)

1573
Oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

The colourful dwarf jester with a parrot was among the motifs that the painter sought fruitlessly to justify to the Inquisition in 1573 by referring to the need to fill the canvas with decorative forms.




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