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[Illustration: PLATE I.--JUPITER DESTROYING THE VICES
(In the Musée du Louvre)
This large composition shows a method rarely employed by Veronese. The
great imaginative artist here tried his hand at the more vigorous
school of painting, and with complete success. It is especially
admired for certain remarkable effects of foreshortening. This
picture, painted for the Ducal Palace, served as a ceiling decoration
in Louis XIVth's chamber at Versailles, until it was finally
transferred to the Louvre.]