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| Detail: The Supper at Emmaus |
A footnote on Veronese - will no doubt get to the National Gallery again this week during my lunch hour.
And will I see this woman in another painting?
I spotted her here last week....
But - through the miracle of Pinterest (not quite sure how that works) - see that she also appears in at least one other painting - the Wedding at Cana which is at the Louvre.
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| The Wedding at Cana/Veronese |
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| Detail: The Wedding at Cana |
"Indeed, the first impression is one of a tumultuous rabble of vulgar parvenu persons who have taken possession of a series of classical palaces and who, drunk with success, are invading the sky...
"But there are two Veronese dominions. One is ruled by a fat woman who looks rather like the Empress Maria Theresa. The other is ruled by a young woman with delicate pensive face and an intent, halted listening expression."
The first is clearly above; the second here below in Venice and Hercules and Ceres:
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| Detail: Venice and Hercules and Ceres/Accademia, Venice |
What and who are these two Venices? McCarthy says the august matron is the Venice of splendid entertainments.
The second is 'the awakening, tinctured with melancholy, in the candid morning light of the lagoons...'
A puckered brow, as if a frown may pass over it. The morning after the party feeling, perhaps.
