Vesper No. 8 | Vesper | Spring-Summer 2023
Gavin
Keeney, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
Veronese
Keywords
Preposterous presentism, architectural parallax, time-traveling, Venetian Renaissance
Veronese is an unorthodox
re-reading of The Wedding at Cana by
Paolo Veronese at the Palladian Refectory at San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. The
premise is that perspective is not always rational and often includes vanishing
points as red herrings. While the room and painting are connected visually, by
the perspectival magic of room and painting, the conceptual entrance to the
painting (and the hypothetical entrance to the room from the painting) is
actually situated in the shadowy top-right corner and requires a ladder. As
much goes unseen as is seen. In this sense, the event of The Agony in the
Garden is hidden in the event of The Wedding at Cana.
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