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).

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	View of the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci c. 1551 Oil on canvas Palazzo Ducale, Venice
	Ceiling decoration (detail) c. 1551 Oil on canvas Palazzo Ducale, Venice
	Jupiter Hurling Thunderbolts at the Vices 1554-56 Oil on canvas, 560 x 330 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
	Jupiter Hurling Thunderbolts at the Vices 1554-56 Oil on canvas, 560 x 330 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
	Aged Oriental with a Young Woman 1554-56 Oil on canvas, 286 x 150 cm Palazzo Ducale, Venice
	Juno Showering Gifts on Venetia 1554-56 Oil on canvas, 365 x 147 cm Palazzo Ducale, Venice
	Juno Showering Gifts on Venetia 1554-56 Oil on canvas, 365 x 147 cm Palazzo Ducale, Venice
	Juno Showering Gifts on Venetia (detail) 1554-56 Oil on canvas Palazzo Ducale, Venice
	The Triumph of Virtue over Vice 1554-56 Oil on canvas, 295 x 165 cm Palazzo Ducale, Venice
	Ceiling of the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci (detail) c. 1551 Oil on canvas Palazzo Ducale, Venice