The meal at Levi

the meal at Levi is a Peinture of the artist Italy N Paolo Caliari, known as Véronèse in 1573.

This work was ordered to him by the monks Dominicains of the church San Giovanni E Paolo with Venice which wished to replace a table carried out by Titien which had been destroyed in 1571 in a fire.

Description

The table is immense a thirteen meters length fabric. It represents the Christ surrounded by a whole of characters who are not mentioned in the Évangiles. The work which represents the Cène does not take place in an inn of Palestine, like describes it the Bible, but in a rich person palate of classical architecture, probably inspired of the one of those built by Andrea Palladio.

A discussed cene

In the beginning, Véronèse names its table, “ the Cène ” i.e. the ultimate meal of Christ and her apostles which is one of the broad traditional topics of the religious Peinture. However, Véronèse covers the subject in a very personal way what immediately wakes up the suspicions of the Inquisition which reproaches him for having represented cene in manner Hétérodoxe, even scandalous.

Obliged to be explained in front of the court of the the Holy Office the July 18th 1573, Véronèse confirms its attachment with the principles of the catholic faith. At the time of the interrogation he is shown of impiété, to have located cene in a place where drinkers, dwarves, blacks, animals evolve/move in a judged atmosphere layman. To defend oneself it indicates that the order provided that the table was to contain many characters and it adds “ Us other painters, we take these licenses which the insane poets and the take”.

Véronèse is however constrained to change the title of the table which it names the Meal at Levi .

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