The wedding feasts of Peleus and Thetis, Pirithous and Hippodame, Perseus and Andromeda, and a more peaceful banquet thrown by Achelous.
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The Last Supper, Veronese’s series of New Testament feasts leading to his appearance before the Inquisition, and Belshazzar’s Feast.
How Veronese was accused by the Inquisition of blasphemy by painting “buffoons, drunken Germans, dwarfs” and others in his vast painting of the Last Supper.
Christmas holiday was one of the few occasions that brought people out of the warm to outdoor fairs and festivals.
Veronese used a narrative form which only works in paintings and other visual media, and is still used in popular children’s books.
