The Reading-Based Appreciation of Veronese’s “The Wedding Feast at Cana (1562–63)”:

<p>This article is founded on the author’s previous presentation about reading-based art appreciation at the 57th University Art Education Society of Japan. His wish is that Japanese students would touch and understand Western painting developed in the golden age of art, so-called Renaissance as human heritage. At this time, leaving once from the Florentine school where many talented artists appeared, he researched painters of the lagoon city of Venice, which is famous for gondola. Last summer when he drafted this article, he could never imagine that this city was hit hard by the flood and the new Corona wreck. He prays for the recovery of Venice, a treasure house of art. After considering the best object to introduce to Japanese learners, he chose a word, ‘meal’ as familiar and simultaneously universal subject, then he selected Veronese’s “The Wedding Feast at Cana”, whose quality might be equivalent to Leonardo’s “The Last Supper” in terms of work size, description level, technical proficiency and theme decoding density. This work was conformed to the Gospel according to John 2: 1-12, however viewers may enjoy Venetian dramatization in it. He showed a seven-step learning model constructed on the idea of multilaterally reading a painting.</p>