Paolo Veronese paintings list and painter biography

Paolo Veronese

Paolo Veronese Biography

(Paolo Caliari) (1528-88)
Italian painter

Born at Verona (from which his nickname derives), but active in Venice from about 1553 and considered a member of the Venetian school. With Tintoretto Paolo Veronese became the dominant figure in Venetian painting in the generation after Titian and Paolo Veronese had many major commissions, both religious and secular. Paolo Veronese soon established a distinctive style and thereafter developed relatively little. Few of Paolo Veronese paintings are dated or can be reliably dated, so his chronology is difficult to construct. Similarly, because antique art painter Paolo Veronese had such a highly organized studio and his output was so large, there can be problems in distinguishing the painting of his own hand.
Nevertheless, his status and achievement are clear. Paolo Veronese was one of the greatest of all decorative artists, delighting in painting enormous pageant-like scenes that bear witness to the material splendor of Venice in its Golden Age. Marble columns and costumes of velvet and satin abound in Paolo Veronese paintings, and he used a sumptuous but delicate palette in which pale blue, orange, silvery white, and lemon yellow predominate. Paolo Veronese painted many religious scenes as well as mythological and allegorical Paolo Veronese paintings (and portraits), but his penchant was for feast scenes from the Bible rather than incidents from Christ's Passion. His love of richness and ornament got him into trouble with the Inquisition in a famous incident when Paolo Veronese was taken to task for crowding a painting of the Paolo Veronese Last Supper with such irrelevant and irreverent figures as 'a buffoon with a parrot on his wrist... a servant whose nose was bleeding... dwarfs and similar vulgarities'.

List of Famous Paolo Veronese Paintings