Art Of The Day Weekly
#354 - from 10 July 2014 to 10 September 2014
Véronèse, The Feast in the House of Levi (after restauration), Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademia, entrusted to the Municipality of Verona.
Veronese home again
VERONA - After its first stop in London at the National Gallery, the great Veronese retrospective (1528-1588) is now back home. This is the most important monograph since the one held in Venice in 1939, on the eve of World War II. While his name may give away his origins, Veronese actually met all his successes in Venice, where he settled at the age of 27. But his training, in the workshops of the painter Caroto and the architect Sanmicheli, did take place in Verona, his native town. It is closely studied in the first part of the exhibition. A stay in the region of Veneto could lead to a “Veronese itinerary”, to Villa Maser for example or to the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice. It would also justify, in Verona itself, a visit to Juliet’s Tomb, a true tourist attraction. But the venue is also the museum of the Cavalcaselle frescoes. It is here that the painting The Feast in the House of Levi, one of the many paintings of Biblical banquets the artist left, was restored “directly”. It has been freed from its varnish and found its original blue tainted colours.
• Veronese, l’illusione della realtà at Palazzo della Gran Guardia, from 5 July to 5 October 2014.