The Feast in the House of Levi
The Feast in the House of Levi ( Convito in casa di Levi ) is a 1573 (dated: April 20, 1573) arisen oil painting by the Italian painter Paolo Veronese.
The given as Last Supper for the refectory of the monastery of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice commissioned picture is today under the title The Feast in the House of Levi known. Approximately three months after the suspension of the image in the Dominican monastery church faith jurisdiction was active.
Veronese was interviewed on 28 July 1573 by three of the Savi Sacro tribunals in the Cappella di San Teodoro St. Mark's Basilica. Veronese had depicted in the picture, among other drunks, German mercenaries and small stature. After the survey, the transcript is still now in the Vatican archives, he was ordered to change the image, but this was later deleted from the record. Veronese added an inscription on the balustrade on the left and right: FECIT D. COVO. MAGNV. LEVI and LVCA CAP. V. a. So the image could not be understood as the Last Supper, but now it referred to the mentioned in Luke's Gospel Feast in the House of Levi (Lucas 5.27-32 ).
Veronese was the papal party ( papalisti ) near Venice. Apparently they wanted to hear when interviewing Veronese name to then proceed against the person concerned can. This is at least suggested the following passage in the back log: "Whether it was probably ordered by anyone, which should represent your on this picture German, fools and the like? " That Veronese the order of Father Andrea Buona ( this is in the right part as the center of the local group of figures portrayed ) had received, the questioner will have been known. Veronese carefully skirted the temptation to pull through a denunciation from the affair: " No, gentlemen, but I was commissioned to decorate the picture to my liking, because it is large and able to hold many figures, so it seemed to me. " You let the matter appear to be based with this survey up. In Venice such questioning or hearing was a prerequisite before - after a decision of the Doge - an ecclesiastical inquisition process could be initiated. There was no Inquisition trial of Veronese. "In reality, there was no risk for Paolo himself: The extraordinary process an image was used by the inquisitors and sages as an excuse and opportunity to warn the Dominicans of Santi Giovanni e Paolo; this had for some time had an eye because they stubbornly refused to obey the rules of the Reformation observance, but also because of numerous cases of detectable apostasy within the monastery. Obviously you underwent the banquet no final control. "
After the monastery was dissolved by order of Napoleon in 1807, the painting was in the " Gallerie dell'Accademia di belle arti " in Venice. The painting is 5.6 meters high and 13.09 meters wide, so wide that the wall of the room in which it is located, had to be extended to both sides of the image.
In the Staatliche Museen Kassel, a 1571 sketch is created for this painting. It is designed with graphite and black feather and has dimensions of 30.8 cm × 20.9 cm.