Veronese, The Family of Darius Before Alexander

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Veronese, The Family of Darius Before Alexander발음듣기

(jazzy music) [Male] It's opulent.발음듣기

It's large.발음듣기

It's full of saturated color.발음듣기

And it's kind of confusing.발음듣기

[Female] It's quite confusing.발음듣기

We're looking at a painting by the great Venecian painter, Veronese, called The Family of Darius before Alexander.발음듣기

[Male] Darius was the ruler of the Persians.발음듣기

The Persians had been at war with Greece.발음듣기

Alexander the Great, that famous Greek general, had finally conquered Darius.발음듣기

Here is his family asking for mercy.발음듣기

[Female] When Alexander conquered the Persians, Darius, the leader of the Persians' escape, but his family was taken hostage.발음듣기

In this painting by Veronese, we see Darius' mother pleading for mercy for his family.발음듣기

With her are Darius' wife, behind her in gold, and Darius' children.발음듣기

[Male] Now this was serious business because when one army conquered another generally the conquered would be killed, could be raped, could be enslaved.발음듣기

[Female] It's a very serious moment, indeed.발음듣기

Darius' mother is making a very serious mistake, because instead of pleading for mercy with Alexander, she actually addresses Hephaestion, Alexander's adviser.발음듣기

[Male] But the courtly figure of Alexander steps forward and really smooths over the mistake.발음듣기

[Female] That's right Alexander says to her, "It's okay. This is also Alexander."발음듣기

[Male] Now how does that make sense?발음듣기

[Female] Well, he's saying it's okay.발음듣기

This is my close friend.발음듣기

This is my close adviser since my childhood.발음듣기

A very generous gesture, both toward his friend, Hephaestion, and also toward Darius' mother, saying it's okay this mistake.발음듣기

It's understandable.발음듣기

[Male] So Alexander is being portrayed here not only as a brilliant military ruler, but also as a diplomat, also as somebody who is very much a courtly figure in the highest sense.발음듣기

Those would have been values that would have been very important to the Venetians at this time, to the Pisani family who had commissioned this painting from Veronese.발음듣기

It's interesting that the initial confusion that we feel when we look at this painting, who are all these figures, is exactly a part of the narrative itself.발음듣기

It is the confusion that is being represented.발음듣기

[Female] That's right.발음듣기

[Male] This is a grand painting on a grand scale.발음듣기

It is filled to capacity with other figures who are really unnecessary but give the painting a kind of complication and that function kind of anecdotally.발음듣기

For example, on the right side, you don't need to have a dog in the painting.발음듣기

The dog looks like it is aggressive and it might attack those figures who are kneeling, but it's being restrained by the guard.발음듣기

This, of course, stands as a kind of illusion to the restraint that Alexander himself is showing.발음듣기

Let's walk up to this painting and look at it closely, because it's really beautiful.발음듣기

Veronese has imbued the figures in the foreground with a kind of richness, a kind of density, that shows of brilliant coloration and brushwork.발음듣기

[Female] We see the primary colors of red and yellow and blue and then secondary colors of greens and oranges.발음듣기

Color is so much a part of Veronese's work and of the Venetians in general.발음듣기

[Male] It's interesting, because when you look at the painting closely, certainly you see color, certainly you see a kind of bravura brushwork.발음듣기

You can see that especially in the children of Darius; in, for instance, the white that highlights the blue and white clothing that they wear.발음듣기

But line is also clearly important.발음듣기

[Female] We see contours and drawing especially in the architecture in the background.발음듣기

[Male] It's almost as if those are sketches.발음듣기

You've got this beautiful architectural frieze in the background that contains even more figures up towards the top of the canvas, but if you look at the extreme left side, towards the background you can see these beautifully foreshortened horses, and they are almost mere sketches.발음듣기

[Female] If you look closely, everything in the painting is in motion.발음듣기

We feel this drama happening at this moment.발음듣기

We feel everybody reacting.발음듣기

We have this sweeping diagonal from the lower left to the upper right that is the basis for the composition, so there's a real sense of confusion and activity and movement, and a kind of theatricality here, and we feel like we're observers, just like the people we see on the balustrade in the background. (jazzy music)발음듣기

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