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Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice The National Gallery. From the 19th March until the 15th June 2014 Paolo Veronese (Verona, 1528 – Venice, 1588), is one of the most important painters of the Venetian Renaissance. His paintings are magnificent visions of the opulence and spectacle of 16th-century Venetian life. He created works ranging from complex fresco decorations of villas and palaces to large-scale altarpieces, smaller devotional paintings, mythological, allegorical and historical pictures, and portraits. The National Gallery owns 10 paintings by Veronese, from a wide range of periods in the artist’s career, and including masterpieces such as The Family of Darius before Alexander and the four Allegories of Love. This exhibition, the first monographic show on the artist ever held in the United Kingdom, will put these important works Paolo Veronese. La tentación de San Antonio/ The temptation of Saint Anthony , 1552. © Museo de Bellas Artes de Caen. Foto Martine Seyve. Paolo Veronese. Retrato de la dama conocida como la «Bella Nani»/ Portrait of a lady known as the ‘Bella Nani’ , c. 1560-65. © RMN Museo del Louvre, París. in context by displaying them next to other major paintings by the artist, lent by European and American museums (including the Musée du Louvre, Paris; Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City). Visitors will be able to enjoy the monumental nature of these works as they are being displayed in the heart of the National Gallery. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Veronese’s paintings were avidly bought by collectors and eagerly studied by artists. Carracci, Rubens, Tiepolo and Watteau are among the many artists who are heavily indebted to Veronese’s art. 93