David Sandlin Donnell Library Window Space, NYC Through March 27, 2011
The painter Veronese was summoned before the Inquisition in 1573 to answer to charges of blasphemy. In a painting of The Last Supper he represented worldly things in addition to the spiritual. Among his figures was a dog, which constituted the blasphemy for which he was being charged. A decade earlier the Council of Trent had declared what was iconography for these religious scenes, and a dog clearly was not among the list of appropriate subjects.
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The painter Veronese was summoned before the Inquisition in 1573 to answer to charges of blasphemy. In a painting of The Last Supper he represented worldly things in addition to the spiritual. Among his figures was a dog, which constituted the blasphemy for which he was being charged. A decade earlier the Council of Trent had declared what was iconography for these religious scenes, and a dog clearly was not among the list of appropriate subjects.
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- 3/21/2011
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
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