Paolo Veronese
Italian painter of the Renaissance (1528-1588)
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Paolo Veronese (1528 – 19 April 1588) was an important Venetian Renaissance painter. His birth name was Paolo Cagliari or Paolo Caliari; he became known as "Veronese" from his birthplace in Verona.
Quotes edit
Testimony to the Inquisition, (1573) edit
Testimony to the Inquisition in Venice (18 July 1573) as translated by Charles Yriarte
- We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.
- Unsourced variant translation: We painters take the same liberties as poets and madmen.
- I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.
- Unsourced variant translation: I paint my pictures with such judgment as I have and as seems fitting.
- I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.
Quotes about Veronese edit
- Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject. ... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.
- Washington Allston, as quoted in The Quotable Artist (2002) by Peggy Hadden, p. 20
- There are three Venetians that are never separated in my mind — Titian, Veronese, and Tintoret.
- John Ruskin, in Art Culture : A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms (1877), p. 9