When the fresco was completed , how did the Council of Trent change its decrees ?
The decree confirmed the traditional doctrine that images only represented the person depicted , and that veneration to them was paid to the person , not the image , and further instructed that:Ten years after the decree Paolo Veronese was summoned by the Holy Office to explain why his " Last Supper " , a huge canvas for the refectory of a monastery , contained , in the words of the Holy Office : " buffoons , drunken Germans , dwarfs and other such scurrilities " as well as extravagant costumes and settings , in what is indeed a fantasy version of a Venetian patrician feast .