Veronese: 119 Paintings and Drawings

By Maria Tsaneva

Paolo Veronese was an Italian Renaissance artist is one of the great masters of the Venetian school, most famous for large history paintings of both religious and mythological subjects. With Titian and Tintoretto he was one of the "great trio that dominated Venetian painting of the cinquecento" or 16-century late Renaissance. Veronese is known as a supreme colorist and after an early period with Mannerist influence turned to a more naturalist style influenced by Titian. Many of the greatest artists may be counted among his admirers, including Rubens, Watteau, Tiepolo, Delacroix and Renoir. His most famous works are complex storyline cycles, executed in a dramatic and rich style, full of majestic architectural settings and impressive display. His large paintings of biblical feasts, crowded with figures, painted for the refectories of monasteries in Venice and Verona are especially famous, and he was also the leading Venetian painter of ceilings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312000827

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Veronese: 119 Paintings and Drawings

Veronese: 119 Paintings and Drawings

By Maria Tsaneva

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Copyright © 2014 by Maria Tsaneva

Translated by Raia Iotova

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Veronese: 119 Paintings and Drawings

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Foreword

Paolo Veronese (1528 – 1588) was an Italian Renaissance painter is one of the great masters of the Venetian school, most famous for large history paintings of both religious and mythological subjects. Originally named Paolo Caliari, he was called Veronese from his native city of Verona. With Titian, who was at least a generation older, and Tintoretto, ten years older, he was one of the great trio that dominated Venetian painting of the cinquecento or 16-century late Renaissance. Veronese is known as a supreme colorist and after an early period with Mannerist influence turned to a more naturalist style influenced by Titian. He has always been appreciated for the chromatic brilliance of his palette, the brilliance and sensibility of his brushwork, the aristocratic elegance of his figures, and the magnificence of his spectacle, but his work has been felt not to permit expression of the profound, the human, or the sublime, and of the great trio he has often been the least appreciated by modern criticism. Nonetheless, many of the greatest artists ... may be counted among his admirers, including Rubens, Watteau, Tiepolo, Delacroix and Renoir. His most famous works are elaborate narrative cycles, executed in a dramatic and colourful style, full of majestic architectural settings and glittering pageantry. His large paintings of biblical feasts, crowded with figures, painted for the refectories of monasteries in Venice and Verona are especially famous, and he was also the leading Venetian painter of ceilings. Veronese was one of the first painters whose drawings were sought by collectors during his lifetime

Paolo Veronese learned painting in Verona from Antonio Badile, a capable exponent of the conservative local tradition. That tradition remained fundamental to Veronese's style throughout his career, even after he moved to Venice in 1553.

The painters of Verona between about 1510 and 1540 favoured firm, regular volumes, strong colours that function largely in terms of contrasts, and conventionalised figures. Veronese combined these elements of the local High Renaissance style with Mannerist elements, including complex compositional schemes that often employ a worm's-eye view perspective and Michelangelesque figures in powerful foreshortened or contorted poses. The resulting amalgam was handled with increasing mastery in the Temptation of St Anthony, done for the Cathedral of Mantua in 1552 (Musee des Beaux-Arts, Caen, France), and ceiling paintings (1553-54) for