From Bellevue Arts Museum:

Italy, circa 1600: Italian churches and monasteries are commissioning paintings by the masters Veronese and Caravaggio to glorify the altars where priests say mass—and that today have become art-lover pilgrimage sites. Yet both painters eventually created work that went too far, running afoul of the authorities. What constituted “too far”? And what happened to the painters and their rejected paintings?

This year’s Loggia Lecture series is called Reject, Revile, Repeat. In each Loggia we’ll explore a form of censorship within art history, including contemporary America. Count on the stories to be engrossing and the issues thought-provoking. Ultimately, each Loggia will testify to the power of art, given how authorities through the ages have been threatened by it.