At the end of Ruskin's brief _Guide to the Principal Pictures in the Academy of Fine Arts at Venice_, a translation of the examination is given.

Reading it, one feels that Veronese did not come out of it too well.

Whistler would have done better.

I quote a little.
_Question._ Do you know the reason why you have been summoned?
_Answer._ No, my lord.
_Q._ Can you imagine it?
_A._ I can imagine it.
_Q._ Tell us what you imagine.
_A._ For the reason which the Reverend Prior of SS.

Giovanni and Paolo, whose name I know not, told me that he had been here, and that your illustrious lordships had given him orders that I should substitute the figure of the Magdalen for that of a dog; and I replied that I would willingly have done this, or anything else for my own credit and the advantage of the picture, but that I did not think the figure of the Magdalen would be fitting or would look well, for many reasons, which I will always assign whenever the opportunity is given me.
_Q._ What picture is that which you have named?
_A._ It is the picture representing the last supper that Jesus took with His disciples in the house of Simon.
_Q._ Where is this picture?
_A._ In the refectory of the Friars of SS.