Veronese Project
“VERONESE PROJECT” is EXTRACT SIX — FROM PART ONE: EPISODE THREE of tales told “out of school” and (intentionally) out of order: i.e., extracts from /S/4: Ego-histoire, an anti-memoir of a PhD project, written across the years 2021–2023, and ending with the (un)timely discovery of the mysterious phenomenon (agency) of THE EDITION OF ONE.
For a summary, plus DRAMATIS PERSONAE, see https://medium.com/@agencex/ego-histoire-85b118e1b986 …
EXTRACT SIX — FROM PART ONE: EPISODE THREE
Photo-reconnaissance of Veronese’s The Wedding at Cana at the Palladian Refectory, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice.
THE VERONESE PROJECT
It was the “Veronese” project that launched the late-2021 trip to LJU. Otherwise known as “Veronese as Artist-scholar,” this project had begun with a brief sketch of the silence inhabiting the interior of The Wedding at Cana, Veronese great and somewhat scandalous painting made for the refectory of the Benedictine monastery at San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, in 1562–1563 or so. That first brief exposition of the mysteries of this Late-Renaissance painting was part of an essay in Works for Works: Book 1, Useless Beauty, and utilized as metaphor for the silence that might inhabit the concept of scriptoria for works of artistic scholarship that refuse accommodation to the edicts of Capital and assimilation to the…
