Paolo Veronese
Subtitle: a master and his workshop in Renaissance Venice
By: edited by Virginia Brilliant with Frederick Ilchman
Contributors: Brilliant, Virginia, editor; Ilchman, Frederick, editor; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Scala
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781857597660
Subjects: Renaissance Painting; Italian Painting; Exhibitions
Description: "Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) is recognized as one of the giants of Venetian Renaissance painting. His artistic production was richly varied, extending from imposing altarpieces to smaller religious paintings for private clients, from grand portraits to sensual episodes drawn from the classical tradition. He was also an outstanding draughtsman, and his graphic oeuvre randed from preliminary sketches to highly finished chiaroscuro sheets. Produced to accompany an exhibition celebrating the artist at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, this magnificently illustrated book displays Veronese's extraordinary versatility and examines his artistic practice, concentrating on works from American and Canadian museums and private collections. For a sixteenth-century painter, many of whose works are in fresco or on enormous canvases still in situ, Veronese is unusually well represented in North America. At the same time, the broad spectrum of Veronese as a painter and draughtsman has not been available to American audiences in over two decades. This publication, with contributions by an international team of experts and focusing attention on little-known works as well as acknowledged masterpieces, constitutes a major contribution to Veronese studies."--Jacket.
Notes: "The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, The State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State University in association with Scala Publishers."

"This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice, on view at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, December 7, 2012-April 4, 2013"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: Paolo Caliari : a Veronese painter triumphant in Venice  -- David Rosand; title: Veronese's training, methods, and shop practice  -- Diana Gisolfi; title: Veronese and his patrons  -- Blake de Maria; title: "Abiti gravi, abiti stravaganti" : Veronese's creative approach to drapery  -- Rembrandt Duits; title: Veronese's story of the eye  -- Maria H. Loh -- Veronese in America : collecting and taste / -- Virginia Brilliant -- The classical tradition : mythology and allegory / -- Inge Reist -- The portraiture of Veronese / -- John Garton; title: The Bible and the lives of saints  -- Virginia Brilliant; title: Altarpieces and heavenly visions  -- Virginia Brilliant; title: The rest on the flight to Egypt  -- Virginia Brilliant -- The baptism of Christ / -- Frederick Ilchman; title: The death of Christ  -- Frederick Ilchman; title: The drawings of Veronese  -- John Marciari; title: Veronese and the reproductive print  -- Jonathan Bober; title: "Like a mirror that shows his idea ..." : interaction in the Veronese workshop  -- Stephen Gritt; title: Materials, technique, and the master's hand : the Seattle Venus and Adonis -- Nicholas Dorman and Katie Patton.