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Veronese Paolo
(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 Veronese Paolo became the dominant figure in Venetian painting in the generation after Titian and Veronese Paolo had many major commissions, both religious and secular. Veronese Paolo soon established a distinctive style and thereafter developed relatively little. Few of his paintings are dated or can be reliably dated, so his chronology is difficult to construct. Similarly, because Veronese Paolo had such a highly organized studio and his output was so large, there can be problems in distinguishing the work of his own hand.
Nevertheless, his status and achievement are clear. Veronese Paolo 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 his work, and Veronese Paolo used a sumptuous but delicate palette in which pale blue, orange, silvery white, and lemon yellow predominate. Veronese Paolo painted many religious scenes as well as mythological and allegorical works (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 Veronese Paolo was taken to task for crowding a painting of the 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'. - Veronese Paolo oil painting antique, Italian paintings - Veronese Paolo Italian oil painting antique –Veronese Paolo Bio and antique oil painting by Italian oil paintings antique art of antique oil paintings and Veronese paintings.

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