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LE REPAS CHEZ LEVI, PAOLO VERONESE - COLLECTION PALETTES

of JAUBERT Alain

FRANCE, 1989, 00:30:00

Production : DELTA IMAGES, PAINI Dominique, MUSEE DU LOUVRE, FR3, LA SEPT, REUNION DES MUSEES NATIONAUX, MUSEE D'ORSAY
Collection : Musée du Louvre
Genre : Documentary
Keyword : Art, Colour, History, History of art, Louvre Museum

Summary :
Choosing key-works in the imaginary of the Western culture, the series called “Palettes” tells in each episode the story of a different painting. In a word, it tells the genealogy of the painting. For a painting has its ancestors and its descendants. A double technical and philosophical knowledge, fed on by a long tradition, gave birth to the painting. And the painting itself gave birth, year after year, to a multitude of other images…
Assuming the idea that the deep meaning of a painting is conveyed by the choice of colours and themes, we dissect the canvas from its most visible composition to its deepest significance.

"Le Repas chez Levi" was the prototype of the series "Palettes", which brought the immediate support of the coproducers. The painting was just coming out of the restoration studios of San Gregorio at Venice. It is one of the biggest paintings in the world.
What a challenge to get a canvas of 13 meters width,5,50 meters height enter in a television frame!" - Alain Jaubert

A painting that changes of name. Veronese prosecuted before the court of the Inquisition, the appearing of the famous "Veronese green", a monk who cuts the canvas in three parts to save it from a fire. Here is, revealed, the huge talent of Veronese, his cleverness, his demand, from the rights of the creator to the imagination.

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