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Catalog of the Fine Arts CollectionPlease note that the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum prohibits the use of images from its collection in public exhibition, broadcast, electronic reproduction or publication in any form without prior written permission from the institution. If you would like to reproduce any of the Art Gallery images in any form, contact us at 748-8291.
After Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), Italian A leading figure of the Italian Renaissance in Venice, Paolo Veronese was celebrated in his own time, as he is today, for his rich palette and mastery of illusion. The Little St. John reproduces a single figure from Veronese's Madonna Enthroned with Saints (originally painted for the sacristy of Venice's Church of San Zaccaria around 1562) that is now in the city's Gallery of the Accademia. In Veronese's original composition, the infant John the Baptist is situated at the painting's visual center, leading the viewer's eye upward toward the enthroned Virgin. The centrality and subtlety of the infant's turning figure as a space-creating compositional device, known as a repoussoir, illustrates the creative experimentation for which early critic and biographer Giorgio Vasari first admired Veronese's work.
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