Timeline: The High Renaissance Veronese, Paolo (Paolo Caliari)
(1528-88). Italian painter, born at Verona (from which his
nickname derives), but active in Venice from about 1553 and
considered a member of the Venetian school. With Tintoretto he
became the dominant figure in Venetian painting in the
generation after Titian and he had many major commissions, both
religious and secular. He soon established a distinctive style
and thereafter developed relatively little. Few of his paintings
are dated or can be reliably dated, so his chronology is
difficult to construct. Similarly, because he had such a highly
organized studio and his output was so large, there can be
problems in distinguishing the work of his own hand.
Nevertheless, his status and achievement are clear. He was one
of the greatest of all decorative artists, delighting in
painting enormous pageant-like scenes that bear witness to the
material splendor of Venice in its Golden Age. Marble columns
and costumes of velvet and satin abound in his work, a