Veronese - Hardcover

Edited By Renzo Villa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8836655300 ISBN 13: 9788836655304

Publisher: Silvana Editoriale, 2024

Synopsis

• This book retraces the essential early stages of Veronese's creativity in Venice
• Discusses the following 40 years of inventions, boasting an inexhaustible imagination

The greatest director and set designer of the Cinquecento, Paolo Caliari (1528-1588), 'Veronese' to his patrons and admirers in Venice – the city in which he lived and worked becoming its citizen – was appreciated first and foremost as a colourist, capable of proposing an unprecedented bright palette, daring combinations of colours, skilful plays of light. Furthermore, he was a sumptuous narrator.

Alone he created a genre: the Cene, or Suppers, grandiose and display of fabrics, poses and portraits, where the evangelical event is an opportunity to stage the patrician society of his time, within architectural spaces in which the classical orders are articulated in urbanistic fantasies that are as impressive as they are creative. Furthermore, he painted for a clientele of patricians and main religious orders an impressive variety of biblical scenes, stories of saints and martyrs, sophisticated and allusive allegories, verging on ambiguity and irony.

Appreciated and admired, carefully studied, Veronese must be considered the painter who paved the way, through his illusionistic solutions and taste for staging, to 17th-century painting and was finally welcomed as a colourist by the painters of the Romantic generation and the Impressionists. This book retraces the essential stages of an early creativity, immediately masterful, then developed in 40 years of inventions boasting an inexhaustible imagination.

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From the Back Cover

One of the three major Venetian painters of the Cinquecento, Paolo Caliari (1528-88), known as "Veronese," was celebrated first and foremost as a colorist. A sumptuous narrator, he created a subgenre of colossal religious and mythological paintings, grandiose in size and display of fabrics, poses and portraits, where the evangelical event was an opportunity to stage the patrician society of his time. Appreciated and admired throughout the ages, Veronese paved the way for the theatrics of 17th-century painting and the vivid palettes of the Romantics and Impressionists. This book retraces Veronese's work through its essential stages from an early creativity to critical success, and details his artistic inventions such as his illusionistic solutions and taste for staging.

Edition details

• Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8836655300
• ISBN 13: 9788836655304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Giovanni C.F. Villa