Paolo Veronese

I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.

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

I paint my pictures with such judgment as I have and as seems fitting.

Testimony to the Inquisition, (1573)

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

• 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

External links

• ART VIEW; Homage to a Gentleman of Verona
• Veronese biography on Web Gallery of Art
• Paolo Caliari in the 1911 Catholic Encyclopedia