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 *scape (1840), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Labrofos Waterfall, Christiania Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., vi. 592.

FEAST IN HOUSE OF LEVI (Luke v. 29), Paolo Veronese, Venice Academy; canvas, H. 19 ft. 8 in. × 46 ft. dated 1573. Table spread in a portico pierced by three arcades; Christ, seated in middle, facing the spectator, talks with SS. Peter and John beside him; nearly opposite him sits Simon the Pharisee, master of the house, and at the ends of the table, seen through the side arcades, are the other guests; servants wait at the table and pass up and down stairs at each end. Painted for Convent of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, to replace a Last Supper by Titian, which had been burned; carried to Paris in 1797; returned in 1815 and placed in Academy.—Felibien, i. 723; Filhol, iv. Pl. 247; Landon, Musée, xvii. Pl. 25; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 28; Zanotto, 535.

FEAST IN HOUSE OF THE PHARISEE (Luke vii. 36), Moretto, S. M. della Pietà, Venice; canvas, life-size; signed, dated 1544. A palace with lofty halls and colonnades Christ, at table in middle of a vaulted room, points to the Magdalen prostrate at his feet; a bare-armed servant looks on with surprise, while another peeps over Christ's shoulder; Simon at left in turban and fur pelisse; in foreground, a dwarf buffoon with an ape on his shoulder, and near him a servant with cup and flask; at right, two women. Painted for refectory of Convent of S. Fermo, Monselice; Moretto's most important work and the prototype of the style elaborated by Paolo Veronese.—Ridolfi, Maraviglie, i. 348; C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 408.

Feast in House of the Pharisee, Paolo Veronese, Turin Gallery.

By Paolo Veronese, Brera, Milan; canvas, H. 9 ft. × 23 ft. The guests seated at two L-shaped tables on each side of a grand hall, with an arch in distance leading into a garden with a landscape beyond; Christ seated at left, with Mary Magdalen wiping his feet, the broken pot of ointment beside her. Painted in 1570 for S. Sebastiano, Venice.—Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 28.

By Paolo Veronese, Louvre; canvas, H.