Venice is here represented in the form of a superb and smiling woman, seated upon the clouds, her eyes raised towards Glory, who offers her a crown. At her side, Renown celebrates her grandeur; at her feet are grouped Honour, Liberty, Peace, Juno, and Ceres; lower down an ethereal structure of admirable daring and architectural beauty sustains a great assemblage of gentlemen and ladies richly clad, of cardinals and bishops, all emulously uniting in the glorification of Venice. On the ground level standards, trophies, and cavaliers add the finishing touch to the composition, and are treated with incomparable vigour and skill both in chiaroscuro and in perspective. Although of more modest dimensions, the _Taking of Smyrna_ and the _Defence of Scutari_ are in no wise inferior to the great central composition. In this same Hall of the Grand Council, Veronese painted two other great canvases, representing the Military Expedition of the Doges, Loredan and Mocenigo. But for that matter there is not a room in the Palace of the Doges in which Veronese is not represented by one or more canvases; in the Hall of the Anticollegio, there is a ceiling painting representing _Venice Enthroned_, a work that has unfortunately deteriorated; in the Hall of the Collegio, a _Battle of Lepanto_, a _Christ in Glory_, _Venice and the Doge Venier_, a _Faith_, a _St. Mark_, and a ceiling which is considered as the most beautiful in the whole Palace of the Doges: _Venice Upon the Terrestrial Globe, Between Justice and Peace_. The Hall of the Council of Ten contains, in the oval ceiling panel: _An Old Man resting his Head on his Hand_ and _A Young Woman_. In the Hall of the "Bussola," _St. Mark crowning the Theological Virtues_, the original of which is at the present time in the Louvre. Mention should also be made of: The _Triumph of the Doge Venier over the Turks_; the _Return of Contanari_, _Victor over the Genoese at Chioggia_; the _Emperor Frederick at the feet of Alexander III._, and, in the Hall of the Ambassadors, a magnificent allegory of Venice, personified as a patrician lady seen from behind, robed in white satin and of marvellous grace.