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The Feast in the House of Levi by Paolo Veronese. Jesus sits at a table for a feast with sinners in the background.
Why was the painting above so controversial?
a.
The heads of the Inquisition felt it was offensive, unfocused, and blasphemous.
b.
It was too realistic for some.
c.
Some of the models for characters in the painting died from mysterious circumstances.
d.
Jesus is not pictured in the painting.
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The painting was summoned before the Inquisition in 1573 because officials found Veronese’s inclusion of buffoons, drunken people, dwarfs, soldiers, dogs, and other seemingly irreverent or anachronistic figures in a Last Supper scene offensive and potentially blasphemous. Veronese defended himself and ultimately retitled the work The Feast in the House of Levi.
The painting was summoned before the Inquisition in 1573 because officials found Veronese’s inclusion of buffoons, drunken people, dwarfs, soldiers, dogs, and other seemingly irreverent or anachronistic figures in a Last Supper scene offensive and potentially blasphemous. Veronese defended himself and ultimately retitled the work The Feast in the House of Levi.
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