# Allegory of the Victory over the League of Cambrai \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PALMA GIOVANE]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary Allegory of the Victory over the League of Cambrai \(detail\) c. 1590 Oil on canvas Palazzo Ducale, Venice This complex painting is in the Sala del Senato. It commemorates a rather inglorious war against the League of Cambrai \(formed by the pope, the kings of France and Spain, and the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire9 which went badly for Venice. In 1509 its enemy occupied Venice's mainland territories and threatened the city itself. The canvas depicts Doge Leonardo Loredan and represents the Venetians' resistance to the combined powers of Europe, symbolized by allegorical figures. ## Related artworks - [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]() - [Pasquale Cicogna in Dogal Robes Visiting the Church and Hospital of the Crociferi]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()