Paolo Veronese

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Paolo Veronese

Italian painter

Also known as: Paolo Caliari

Written by Rodolfo Pallucchini

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Byname of:: Paolo Caliari

Born:: 1528, Verona, Republic of Venice [Italy]

Died:: April 9, 1588, Venice (aged 60)

Notable Works:: “Adoration of the Kings”; “Apotheosis of Venice”; “Feast in the House of Levi”; “Last Supper”; “Mars and Venus United in Love”; “Story of Esther”; “The Family of Darius Before Alexander”; “The Marriage at Cana”; “The Pilgrims of Emmaus”

Movement / Style:: Venetian school

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Paolo Veronese (born 1528, Verona, Republic of Venice [Italy]—died April 9, 1588, Venice) one of the major painters of the 16th-century Venetian school. His works usually are huge, vastly peopled canvases depicting allegorical, biblical, or historical subjects in splendid colour and set in a framework of classicizing Renaissance architecture. A master of the use of colour, he also excelled at illusionary compositions that extend the eye beyond the actual confines of the room. Caliari became known as Veronese after his birthplace. Though first apprenticed as a stonecutter, his father’s trade, he showed such a marked interest in painting that in ...(100 of 1252 words)

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