''The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...

, completed in 1570 for 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. 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

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, 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 – ''

The Wedding at Cana ''The Wedding Feast at Cana'' (''Nozze di Cana'', 1562–1563), by Paolo Veronese, is a representational painting that depicts the biblical story of the Marriage at Cana, at which Jesus miraculously converts water into red wine (John 2:1–11). ...

'' for

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(now in the

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) and another ''

The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee '' The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee'' may refer to: * ''The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee'' (Romanino), a c. 1545 oil on canvas painting, in Brescia * ''The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee'' (Rubens), a c. 1618–1620 ...

'' for Santi Nazaro e Celso (now in Turin) were earlier works in the series. ''

The Feast in the House of Levi ''The Feast in the House of Levi'' or ''Christ in the House of Levi'' is a 1573 oil painting by Italian painter Paolo Veronese and one of the largest canvases of the 16th century, measuring . It is now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. ...

'' ( Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1573), renamed from a ''Last Supper'' to satisfy the objections of the

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, is the largest and perhaps the best known. They are all framed by huge '' trompe-l'œil'' architecture modelled on the contemporary architecture of

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, 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

in 1573. Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti (editor), ''Pinacoteca di Brera'', Arnoldo Mondadori, Milano, 1970

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