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The Feast in the House of Levi or Christ in the House of Levi is a 1573 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. It was painted by Veronese for the rear wall of the refectory of the Basilica di Santi Giovanni e Paolo, a Dominican friary, as a ''Last Supper'', to replace an earlier work by Titian destroyed in the fire of 1571. However, the painting led to an investigation by the Roman Catholic Inquisition. Veronese was called to answer for irreverence and indecorum, and the serious offence of heresy was mentioned. He was asked to explain why the painting contained "buffoons, drunken Germans, dwarfs and other such scurrilities" as well as extravagant costumes and settings, in what is indeed a fantasy version of a Venetian patrician feast.〔(Transcript of Veronese's testimony )〕 Veronese was told that he must change his painting within a three-month period; instead, he simply changed the title to ''The Feast in the House of Levi'', still an episode from the Gospels, but less doctrinally central, and one in which the Gospels specified "sinners" as present. After this, no more was said.〔David Rostand, ''Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto'', 2nd ed 1997, Cambridge UP ISBN 0-521-56568-5〕 ==Subject== The painting depicts a banquet scene in which the tall figure of Christ is depicted in the centre dressed in a shimmering pale green robe while the surrounding people interact in a turbulence of polychromatic splendour in a diverse range of different positions and poses. The feast is framed by the great pillars and archways of a portico and a staircase to the right. The revised title refers to an episode in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 5, in which Jesus is invited to a banquet: And Levi made himself a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of tax collectors and of others that sat down with them. But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. File:Convito casa di Levi Veronese Accademia Cat203 n02.jpg File:Paolo Veronese - Feast in the House of Levi (detail) - WGA24884.jpg File:Paolo Veronese - Feast in the House of Levi (detail) - WGA24883.jpg 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Feast in the House of Levi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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