Friday, March 20, 2009

Venice 4: Veronese






*Allegory of Wisdom and Strength
*The Marriage at Cana, Detail
*Susana Bathing
*The Battle of Lepanto
*The Marriage at Cana











Veronese, Paolo (1528-88). Venetian school. After Titian . Few of his paintings are dated or can be reliably dated, so his chronology is difficult to construct.
Marble columns and costumes of velvet and satin abound in his work, and he used a sumptuous but delicate palette in which pale blue, orange, silvery white, and lemon yellow predominate. His penchant was for feast scenes from the Bible rather than incidents from Christ's Passion.

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