Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 41974-h.htm or 41974-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41974/41974-h/41974-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41974/41974-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/ocadveronese00crasuoft Masterpieces in Colour Edited by--M. Henry Roujon VERONESE (1528-1588) * * * * * * _IN THE SAME SERIES_ REYNOLDS HOLBEIN VELASQUEZ BURNE-JONES GREUZE LE BRUN TURNER CHARDIN BOTTICELLI MILLET ROMNEY RAEBURN REMBRANDT SARGENT BELLINI CONSTABLE FRA ANGELICO MEMLING ROSSETTI FRAGONARD RAPHAEL DÜRER LEIGHTON LAWRENCE HOLMAN HUNT HOGARTH TITIAN WATTEAU MILLAIS MURILLO LUINI WATTS FRANZ HALS INGRES CARLO DOLCI COROT GAINSBOROUGH DELACROIX TINTORETTO FRA LIPPO LIPPI VAN DYCK PUVIS DE CHAVANNES DA VINCI MEISSONIER WHISTLER GEROME RUBENS VERONESE BOUCHER VAN EYCK MANTEGNA _IN PREPARATION_ FROMENTIN PERUGINO * * * * * * [Illustration: PLATE I.--JUPITER DESTROYING THE VICES (In the Musée du Louvre) This large composition shows a method rarely employed by Veronese. The great imaginative artist here tried his hand at the more vigorous school of painting, and with complete success. It is especially admired for certain remarkable effects of foreshortening. This picture, painted for the Ducal Palace, served as a ceiling decoration in Louis XIVth's chamber at Versailles, until it was finally transferred to the Louvre.] VERONESE by FRANÇOIS CRASTRE Translated from the French by Frederic Taber Cooper With Eight Facsimile Reproductions in Colour [Illustration: IN SEMPITERNUM.] Frederick A. Stokes Company New York--Publishers Copyright, 1912, by Frederick A. Stokes Company August, 1912 The·Plimpton·Press [W·D·O] Norwood·Mass·U·S·A CONTENTS Page Introduction 11 The First Years 16 The Sojourn in Venice 27 The Wedding at Cana 38 Veronese and the Inquisition 47 The Journey to Rome 52 The Return to Venice 53 The Decoration of the Ducal Palace 57 The Last Years 65 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS