Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Reading:

Three primary texts (copies are in the box by my door: make sure you get all three!):

Decrees of the Council of Trent on Sacred Images (1563)
Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti, Bishop of Bologna, on Pictures with Obscure or Difficult Meaning (1582)
Transcript from the trial of Paolo Veronese before the Inquisition (1573)

Images: set number rt223-10 Image Database

Michelangelo Last Judgment again
Veronese. Feast in the House of Levi. 1573

Terms:

Council of Trent (1545-63): be clear about what the goals and directives of the council were
Inquisition (founded 1542)

Patrons:

Veronese's Feast in the House of Levi (Last Supper) hung in the Dominican monastery of S. Giovanni e Paoli, Venice

Artists:

Michelangelo
Veronese