- scape (1840), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Labrofos
Waterfall, Christiania Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., vi. 592.
FEAST IN HOUSE OF LEVI (Luke v.
29), Paolo Veronese, Venice Academy; canvas,
H. 19 ft. 8 in. × 46 ft. dated 1573.
Table spread in a portico pierced by three
arcades; Christ, seated in middle, facing
the spectator, talks with SS. Peter and John
beside him; nearly opposite him sits Simon
the Pharisee, master of the house, and at
the ends of the table, seen through the side
arcades, are the other guests; servants wait
at the table and pass up and down stairs
at each end. Painted for Convent of SS.
Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, to replace a Last
Supper by Titian, which had been burned;
carried to Paris in 1797; returned in 1815
and placed in Academy.—Felibien, i. 723;
Filhol, iv. Pl. 247; Landon, Musée, xvii. Pl.
25; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 28; Zanotto, 535.
FEAST IN HOUSE OF THE PHARISEE
(Luke vii. 36), Moretto, S. M. della Pietà,
Venice; canvas, life-size; signed, dated 1544.
A palace with lofty halls and colonnades
Christ, at table in middle of a vaulted room,
points to the Magdalen prostrate at his feet;
a bare-armed servant looks on with surprise,
while another peeps over Christ's shoulder;
Simon at left in turban and fur pelisse; in foreground,
a dwarf buffoon with an ape on his
shoulder, and near him a servant with cup
and flask; at right, two women. Painted
for refectory of Convent of S. Fermo, Monselice;
Moretto's most important work and
the prototype of the style elaborated by Paolo
Veronese.—Ridolfi, Maraviglie, i. 348;
C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 408.
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Feast in House of the Pharisee, Paolo Veronese, Turin Gallery.
By Paolo Veronese, Brera, Milan; canvas, H. 9 ft. × 23 ft. The guests seated at two L-shaped tables on each side of a grand hall, with an arch in distance leading into a garden with a landscape beyond; Christ seated at left, with Mary Magdalen wiping his feet, the broken pot of ointment beside her. Painted in 1570 for S. Sebastiano, Venice.—Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 28.
By Paolo Veronese, Louvre; canvas, H.
