This is a fun painting! Why, you ask? Because it has midgets, and midgets are, by their very nature, hilarious. It was originally meant to depict the scene of the last supper, like Leonardo Da Vinci's painting made famous by Dan Brown (who people somehow read as nonfiction...don't ask me!) However, Veronese was called before the Holy Tribunal of the Inquisition for painting irreverently. Apparently, the Catholic church didn't much care for his inclusion of dogs, drunks and rabble-rousing midgets.
So, he ended up not being persecuted by the Church, but being forced to rename his painting "Feast in the House of Levi," as "The Last Supper" was inappropriate.
HERE is a great blog entry detailing the conversation between the Church and Veronese.
and below is the Monty Python spoof on the artist's run-in with the ecclesiastical authorities:
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