Lucretia
Paolo Veronese · 1580
Paolo Veronese
Republic of Venice · 1528–1588
Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese, was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573). Included with Titian, a generation older, and Tintoretto, a decade senior, Veronese is one of the "great trio that dominated Venetian painting of the cinquecento" and the Late Renaissance in the 16th century. Known as a supreme colorist, and after an early period with Mannerism, Paolo Veronese developed a naturalist style of painting, influenced by Titian. His most famous works are elaborate narrative cycles, executed in a dramatic and colorful 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.
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The Annunciation
Paolo Veronese · 1560
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
The Vision of St. Helena
Paolo Veronese · 1580
Vatican Museums
Conquest of Smyrna
Paolo Veronese · 1585
Doge's Palace
Prosperity
Paolo Veronese
Doge's Palace
Reward
Paolo Veronese · 1575
Doge's Palace
Votive Portrait of Doge Sebastiano Venier
Paolo Veronese · 1581
Doge's Palace
Triumph of Venice
Paolo Veronese · 1585
Doge's Palace
The abduction of Europa
Paolo Veronese · 1578
Doge's Palace
Venus and Adonis
Paolo Veronese · 1580
Museo del Prado
Venus and Adonis is a painting by the Italian late Mannerist artist Paolo Veronese, executed in the early 1580s, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. It is an oil on canvas and its dimensions are 162 cm × 191 cm (64 in × 75 in). The original painting was enlarged by 50 cm in the upper border in the 18th century.
The Wedding at Cana
Paolo Veronese · 1562
Louvre
The Wedding at Cana, by Paolo Veronese, is a representational painting that depicts the biblical story of the Wedding at Cana, at which Jesus miraculously converts water into red wine (John 2:1, 11). Executed in the Mannerist style (1520 to 1600) of the late Renaissance, the large-format (6.77 m × 9.94 m or 22 ft 3 in × 32 ft 7 in) oil painting comprehends the stylistic ideal of compositional harmony, as practised by the artists Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. The art of the High Renaissance (1490 to 1527) emphasised human figures of ideal proportions, balanced composition, and beauty, whereas Mannerism exaggerated the Renaissance ideals, of figure, light, and colour, with asymmetric and unnaturally elegant arrangements achieved by flattening the pictorial space and distorting the human figure as an ideal preconception of the subject, rather than as a realistic representation.
Mars and Neptune
Paolo Veronese
Doge's Palace
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