# Reconquest of Padua by Andrea Gritti [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PALMA GIOVANE]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary The present decoration of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio \(Hall of the Great Council\) in the Palazzo Ducale was realized after the disastrous fire of 1577 during which all the structures of the ship's-keel Gothic ceiling and the wall-paintings were destroyed. An immense flat ceiling, in accordance with the taste of the end of the century, was constructed with gilded cornices sculpted in high-relief, which framed a series of paintings. The canvases were dedicated, thematically, to the Glorification of Venice, in remembrance of the numerous military undertakings in the East or on the mainland by the Venetian ground troops. On the ceiling great importance was given to the victories of the Venetian army in conquering the mainland; along the wall to the dispute between Alexander III and Frederick Barbarossa, who reached an agreement in Venice with the political mediation of Doge Sebastiano Ziani; and to the events of the Fourth Crusade, led by Doge Enrico Dandolo in the early years of the 13th century. Palma Giovane's Reconquest of Padua by Andrea Gritti is one of the thirty five panels on the ceiling of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of the Victory over the League of Cambrai \(detail\)]() - [Amusements of the Prodigal Son]() - [Apollo and Marsyas \(1\)]() - [Apollo and Marsyas \(2\)]() - [Apostles at the Virgin's Tomb]() - [David and Achimelech]() - [Doge Francesco Venier Presents the Subject Cities to Venice]() - [Doge Pietro Loredan Beseeching the Virgin]() - [Martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria]() - [Paolo Veronese]() - [Pasquale Cicogna Hearing Mass Celebrated in the Oratory of the Crociferi \(detail\)]() - [Pasquale Cicogna Hearing Mass Celebrated in the Oratory of the Crociferi]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()