Veronese

Paolo Caliari (1528-1588), who was born in Verona but spent most of his career in Venice, was an artist of immense talent. His contemporaries knew him to be the best of them all for his facility, his taste for invention and color, his way of introducing both imagination and observation into composition. With these eyes we must contemplate Veronese, from his early mannerist paintings, his decorations for the Villa Maser, his mythologies and allegories, his intimate and official portraits, to his great “machines”, the Last Supper - and the best known of all, The Wedding at Cana. All his work bears the stamp of this inventiveness, which allowed him to exalt the earthly dimension of life with an intimately profane painting, even when he was illustrating a sacred text.

ISBN: 9782070317189