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Paolo Veronese
said
We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.
— Unsourced variant translation: We painters take the same liberties as poets and madmen.
Paolo Veronese
Italian painter of the Renaissance (1528–1588)
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- Momentum10.7
- Artists rank#100
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Updated 2026-06-10
He painted biblical banquets so crowded and lavish the Inquisition hauled him in to explain why a Last Supper needed jesters, dwarfs, and dogs. Veronese's answer: he filled empty space how he saw fit. The painting still hangs in Venice, retitled.
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Paolo Caliari was born in 1528 and took his name from Verona, but Venice claimed him. After an early flirtation with Mannerism he found his stride under Titian's influence: a naturalist handling color like light through stained glass. The Wedding at Cana arrived in 1563, a vast narrative engine of architecture and pageantry. By 1573 The Feast in the House of Levi landed him before the Inquisition for overcrowding a sacred meal with secular theatre; he changed the title but not a figure. He became the city's ceiling master, draping refectories and halls in chromatic brilliance and aristocratic…
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Paolo Veronese
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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.
Paolo Veronese
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I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.
— Testimony to the Inquisition, (1573)
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Momentum10.7
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