Italian Renaissance painter born in the city of Verona, one of the most outstanding masters of the Venetian school and known as Veronese for being from Verona. He was a disciple of Antonio Badile, an exponent of local tradition and who transmitted to him a taste for the integration of human figures and architectural elements, very present in his work.
In charge of decorating several residences, he created frescoes for banquets, balls, mythological and historical scenes. Under the influence of Michelangelo, he painted The Temptations of St. Anthony (1552) for the Cathedral of Mantua. He moved to Venice (1553), already with his own style and full command of color. In the beginning, his painting was characterized by solidity, regularity of volumes, strong and contrasting colors and conventional and he devoted many years to the decoration of different parts of the Doge's palace painting scenes around Juno and Jupiter on the ceiling of the Council room of the Ten.
He decorated the church of San Sebastiano (1555-1558), in which he would be buried. Afterwards he gained contrasting treatments between color and light and after he was 35 years old his painting was marked by tranquility, by simplification of the means of expression, through more classic compositions, more nuanced tones and an even more use of light and color gorgeous. On the charge that his Supper at Levi's (1573) was too profane, he was prosecuted by the Inquisition and forced to correct certain details of the work.
He and painters such as Titian, with his use of color, Tintoretto, with his majestic work, and Giorgione, with his expressiveness, produced a work that characterized the last phase of the Renaissance, in the 16th century, and Cinquecento (1500-1599), placing more value on color and a rigorous perspective compared to the form. From an artistic point of view, the Renaissance was a cultural movement whose main characteristic was the emergence of the illusion of depth in the works.
Generally speaking, by definition the Renaissance was an artistic, scientific and literary movement that flourished in Europe in the period corresponding to the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Ages, from the 13th to the 16th century, with the cradle in Italy and having Florence and Rome as its two most centers important. Its main characteristic was the emergence of the illusion of depth in the works and, chronologically, it can be divided into four periods: Duocento (1200-1299), Trecento (1300-1399), Quattrocento (1400-1499) and Cinquecento (1500-1599).
He died in Venice, leaving behind a work of high spatial sense, whose skill with colors and the treatment of perspective became references for other artists, such as Rubens and Tiepolo, although he did not leave disciples. His work signaled both the heyday and the first sign of decay of the Venetian tradition. Even today, several of his paintings occupy a place of honor in many European museums, such as those in Paris, London, Venice and Vienna, including Supper of the Pharisee (1560), Wedding of Canaan (1563), Christ and Woman with Their Offspring (1565-1570), Allegory of Love (1570), The Meeting of Moses (1570-1575), Crucifixion (1572), Supper in the House of Levi (1573), Pietà (1576-1582), Saint Lucia and a devotee (1580), Christ and the Samaritan woman (1580-1582) and the famous Lucretia stabbing herself (1583-1584), this one, like several of them, in the Museu da História da Vienna art.
Screen "Lucrecia (~ 1583)" copied from VERONESE/PICTURESQUE page:
http://www.pitoresco.com.br/italiana/veronese.htm
Source: http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/
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