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.

Venice 3: Mannerism

Mannerism (It. maniera, "manner, style")
A movement in Italian art from about 1520 to 1600. Developing out of the Renaissance, Mannerism rejected Renaissance balance and harmony in favor of emotional intensity and ambiguity. In Mannerist painting, this was expressed mainly through severe distortions of perspective and scale; complex and crowded compositions; strong, sometimes harsh or discordant colors; and elongated figures in exaggerated poses. In architecture, there was a playful exaggeration of Renaissance forms (largely in scale and proportion) and the greater use of bizarre decoration. Mannerism gave way to the Baroque. Leading Mannerists include Pontormo, Bronzino, Parmigianino, El Greco and Tintoretto.