Collection in Focus Veronese s Concert of Colors in Samuel F B Morse s Gallery of the Louvre
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Veronese’s monumental painting, “The Wedding Feast at Cana,” features prominently in Samuel F. B. Morse’s painting “Gallery of the Louvre.” In this video, discover how the Venetian artist’s masterful use of color may have informed the complex organization of Morse’s painting.
Veronese's Wedding Feast at Cana, a personal favorite of Morse's,
is given an important place on the wall at the left of the composition.
When Alston first visited the Louvre, 26 years before Morse, he wrote,
Titian, Tintorette, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of
subject. When I stood before the marriage of Cana, I thought of nothing but of the gorgeous
concert of colors. It seems that the idea of a concert of colors was one of the organizing
principles for Morse's selection and placement of the pictures in his composition. In fact,
Morse may have arranged his pictures for the lessons they presented,
both individually and in how they relate to each other.