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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 cinquecen…
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culture · Italian Renaissance painter (1528–1588) · painter · draftsperson · architectural drafter · visual artist · also Paolo Veronese, Paolo Cagliari, Veronese, Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari), Il Veronese, P. Veronese
Born 1528 · Died 19 April 1588 · Q9440
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... yo reitero lo que he dicho, que estoy obligado a seguir las directices de mis superiores. [...] Miguel Ángel en la Capilla Pontificada de Roma pintó a Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, a Su Madre, san Juan, san Pedro y la Corte Celestial. Todos ellos están desnudos —incluida la Virgen María— y en posturas que denotan escasa reverencia.
The art historian Charles Hope wrote of Veronese's strengths and weaknesses: "He is notable above all as a colorist who used a range of bright hues with a boldness unmatched in his time and scarcely equaled since", but b
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That Veronese was the greatest colorist who ever lived—greater than Titian, Rubens, or Rembrandt because he established the harmony of natural tones in place of the modeling in dark and light that remained the method of
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Died 1588-04-19.
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“... yo reitero lo que he dicho, que estoy obligado a seguir las directices de mis superiores. [...] Miguel Ángel en la Capilla Pontificada de Roma pintó a Nuestro Señor Jesucristo, a Su Madre, san Juan, san Pedro y la Corte Celestial. Todos ellos están desnudos —incluida la Virgen María— y en posturas que denotan escasa reverencia.”
Born 1528.
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