The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee (Veronese, Turin) explained

The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee
Artist:Paolo Veronese
Year:c.1556
Medium:oil on canvas
Height Metric:314
Width Metric:451
Museum:Galleria Sabauda
City:Turin

The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee is a c.1565 oil-on-canvas painting by Veronese, now in the Galleria Sabauda, in Turin.

The work was commissioned by the monks of Santi Nazaro e Celso in Verona for their refectory[1] It was one of a series of monumental "Feasts" for monastery refectories of monasteries in Venice - The Wedding at Cana for San Giorgio Maggiore (now in the Louvre) and another The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee (now in Milan) were other works in the series[2]

References

  1. Federico dal Forno, La Chiesa dei SS. Nazaro e Celso, Verona, Fiorini editore, 1982, pages 24-25
  2. G. Piovene and R. Marini, L'opera completa del Veronese, Rizzoli, Milano, 1968.