Veronese, following a commission by Brother Bernardo…
1555 CE
Veronese, following a commission by Brother Bernardo Torlioni, begins in 1555, to decorate parts of the interior of the Church of San Sebastiano in Venice.
Undertaken in three stages through 1570, this includes paintings, ceiling frescoes and frescoes on the nave and altar walls.
Veronese also decorates parts of the sacristy, the choir, as well as completing the organ decorations and a large altar piece.
The nave's sectioned ceiling contains three paintings depicting episodes from the Book of Esther that Veronese completed in 1556.
The paintings behind the choir depict the life of St. Sebastian to whom the church is dedicated.
The organ doors and frontal contain three pieces: The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple; The Washing of Sacrificial Animals in the Temple; and The Nativity.
Veronese also paints an Assumption of the Virgin in the cupola but this is destroyed in the eighteenth century.