Paolo Veronese by Cocke, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of figures List of plates Acknowledgements Introduction

Early career in Verona Venice: the rooms of the Council of Ten in the Ducal Palace: Daniele Barbaro Consolidation: the frescos at Villa Barbaro, Maser Consolidation in Venice: San Sebastiano Recognition and the revival of Venetian tradition When seeing is believing The master narrator – the mature secular narratives The master narrator – the mature religious paintings Late style: the religious paintings Piety and display

1 From Verona to Venice

Venice: the heir of Constantinople and new Rome Change in Venetian society and art Veronese The Venetian patrons Veronese’s other patrons

2 Public display, 1550–65

Recognition Veronese and the tradition of the Venetian altarpiece Veronese and the tradition of Venetian ceiling painting San Sebastiano The ceiling of the Jesuit church of Santa Maria dell’Umiltà Venetian tradition renewed Veronese and Catholic renewal

3 Public display, 1566–88

The saint as martyr The Council of Trent and the cult of saints The saint as exemplar Veronese and the tradition of the Venetian altarpiece Christ’s Baptism and Crucifixion Lavish display in existing churches: San Giacomo, Murano San Nicolò ai Frari; Santa Maria Maggiore The new status

4 Paintings for private display

Smaller devotional paintings Larger narrative paintings Paintings for camere grandi: the Coccina palace Old and New Testament subjects for the Bonaldi, Charles Duke of Savoy, Simone Lando and Charles de Croy Individual canvases

5 Christ’s Feasts and Last Supper

Feast in the House of Simon, Turin The Marriage Feast at Cana The Feast in the House of Simon, San Sebastiano and S. Maria dei Servi Feast of St Gregory the Great, Monte Berico The Feast in the House of Levi, SS Giovanni e Paolo Last Supper, Santa Soffia

Catalogue Bibliography Works by Veronese Index