The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee (Veronese, Milan)
| The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee | |
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| Artist | Paolo Veronese |
| Year | 1570 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 275 cm × 710 cm (108 in × 280 in) |
| Location | Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee is an oil-on-canvas painting by
San Sebastiano, a Hieronymite monastery in Venice. He also produced a cycle of works for the monastery church (still in place), where he was later buried.[1] After the French occupation of Venice in the late 18th century, the monastery was suppressed and its art confiscated. In 1817, after the fall of Napoleon, Feast was assigned to the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan
, where it still hangs.
From Veronese's mature phase, it was one of a series of monumental "Feasts" for monastery refectories of monasteries in Venice – Palladio, with whom Veronese had collaborated on decorating the Villa Barbaro in Maser.
At the extreme left Mary Magdalene anoints Christ's feet with oil. The huge number of surrounding figures, the scuffle with animals in the centre and the secular details in the work were all cited in Veronese's trial by the Venetian Holy Inquisition in 1573.[3]