Art, literature & historyPaolo Veronese
1528–1588
Selected artwork
Mars and Venus United by Love
1570s
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Other names (158)
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Biography
Paolo Caliari (1528 – 19 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( VERR-ə-NAY-zay, -zee, US also -see; Italian: [ˈpaːolo veroˈneːze, -eːse]), 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. Most of these works remain in situ, or at least in Venice, and his representation in most museums is mainly composed of smaller works such as portraits that do not always show him at his best or most typical.
He has always been appreciated for "the chromatic brilliance of his palette, the splendor and sensibility of his brushwork, the aristocratic elegance of his figures, and the magnificence of his spectacle", but his work has been felt "not to permit expression of the profound, the human, or the sublime", and of the "great trio" he has often been the least appreciated by modern criticism. Nonetheless, "many of the greatest artists ... may be counted among his admirers, including Rubens, Watteau, Tiepolo, Delacroix, and Renoir".
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Influenced by
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Later influence
- Alessandro Varotarieditorial inference
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- Peter Paul Rubenseditorial inference
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- François Lemoyneeditorial inference
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- Anthony van Dyckeditorial inference
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- Giovanni Battista Tiepoloeditorial inference
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- Eugène Delacroixeditorial inference
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- Vasily Polenoveditorial inference
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- Henri Fantin-Latoureditorial inference
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- Bernardo Strozzieditorial inference
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Paolo Veronese. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- Museo Nacional del Prado12 recorded works
- National Gallery10 recorded works
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie8 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art6 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art4 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre3 recorded works
- Musée de Grenoble2 recorded works
- Alte Pinakothek — Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen1 recorded work
- Art Institute of Chicago1 recorded work
- Denver Art Museum1 recorded work
- Galleria Borghese1 recorded work
- Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia1 recorded work
- Hermitage Museum1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Caen1 recorded work
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen1 recorded work
- Palazzo Colonna, Rome, Italy1 recorded work
- Rijksmuseum1 recorded work
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)1 recorded work
- Walters Art Museum1 recorded work
- Yale University Art Gallery1 recorded work
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- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- National Gallery of Art
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- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
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