Veronese

Paolo Veronese was born in Verona in 1528 and died in Venice April 19, 1588.

Veronese was an important Venetian Renaissance painter and like many of the artists in the movement, became known as Veronese after his birthplace in Verona.

Veronese studied the local art in Verona in his youth, then moved briefly to Mantua in 1548 (where he created frescos in that city's Duomo) before settling in Venice. He trained under fellow Veronese artist Giovanni Francesco Caroto.

Most of his works are vivid narrative cycles, executed in a dramatic and colourful Mannerist Venetian style, full of majestic architectural sets and glittering Venetian pageantry.

With Titian and Tintoretto he makes up the triumvirate of great painters of the late Renaissance in Venice. Veronese is primarily known for his supreme iuse of colour and for his fresco and oil artworks. His large paintings of biblical feasts executed for the refectories of monasteries in Venice and Verona are especially celebrated.

Veronese's most famous paintings include:
The Wedding at Cana
The Battle of Lepanto
The Temptation of Anthony