Paolo Veronese Italian Mannerist Painter, ca.1528-1588
Italian painter and draughtsman. With Titian and Tintoretto he makes up the triumvirate of great painters of the late Renaissance in Venice. He is known as a supreme colourist and for his illusionistic decorations in both fresco and oil. His large paintings of biblical feasts executed for the refectories of monasteries in Venice and Verona are especially celebrated. He also produced many altarpieces, history and mythological paintings and portraits. His compositional sketches in pen, ink and wash, figure studies in chalk, and chiaroscuro modelli and ricordi form a significant body of drawings.
Bathsheba at Bath, Paolo Veronese Bathsheba at Bath, Paolo Veronese, oil on canvas, 191 cm x 224 cm, FIne Arts Museums Lyon.
Date Vers 1575
cjr Painting ID:: 81923
Paolo Veronese Bathsheba at Bath, Paolo Veronese Bathsheba at Bath, Paolo Veronese, oil on canvas, 191 cm x 224 cm, FIne Arts Museums Lyon.
Date Vers 1575
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Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, Detail Date ca. 1565(1565)
Medium Oil on canvas
cjr Painting ID:: 83610
Italian Mannerist Painter, ca.1528-1588
Italian painter and draughtsman. With Titian and Tintoretto he makes up the triumvirate of great painters of the late Renaissance in Venice. He is known as a supreme colourist and for his illusionistic decorations in both fresco and oil. His large paintings of biblical feasts executed for the refectories of monasteries in Venice and Verona are especially celebrated. He also produced many altarpieces, history and mythological paintings and portraits. His compositional sketches in pen, ink and wash, figure studies in chalk, and chiaroscuro modelli and ricordi form a significant body of drawings.