OLD PAINTING OF THE 16TH CENTURY ITALIAN SCHOOL

Contemporary reproduction of the MARTYRDOM OF SAINT SEBASTIAN by Paolo Caliari, known as Veronese (Verona, 1528 – Venice, April 19, 1588). OIL ON CANVAS DIMENSIONS WITH FRAME: 190X130 CM IT IS A CONTEMPORARY COPY MADE BY A SKILLED PAINTER FROM VERONESE'S CIRCLE. Paolo Veronese ________________________________________ Paolo Caliari, known as Veronese (Verona, 1528 – Venice, April 19, 1588), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Republic of Venice. His training took place in his native Verona, but the early experiences he had first in the Treviso area and then in Mantua, at the court of the Gonzaga family, were also of great importance for the influences they had on his art and career. He later moved to Venice, where he became known as "Il Veronese", and where from 1556 he resided almost permanently until his death, achieving considerable success from the beginning of his Venetian period. In 1566 he married Elena Badile, daughter of his first teacher Antonio Badile, with whom he had five children, including Carlo (July 20, 1570 - 1596) and Gabriele (1568 - 1631) who, with Paolo's brother, Benedetto, were his main collaborators and who, after his death, continued, with modest success, his workshop activity, now among the largest in Venice, sometimes collectively signing their works with the words Heredes Pauli Caliari Veronensis. Attracted since his early works by Mannerist innovations rather than by the antique style of his first Veronese masters, Caliari maintained this matrix even after settling in Venice. In fact, while certainly drawing on the great Venetian tradition, then embodied by Titian and the nascent genius of Tintoretto, Paolo maintained, even in the lagoon, a artistic identity that was "other", "foreign". In Veronese's painting, in fact, drawing will always be, with the partial exception of his extreme production, a central value, while it was not in contemporary Venetian painting, and also the treatment of color will be different from the native tradition: Veronese, in fact, will never fully embrace tonalism (another fundamental characteristic of Venetian painting of the time), but will prefer a clear and lively use of color, with well-defined and characterized fields, in a way different from tonal painting, with strong iridescence. His legacy would be relevant for the subsequent developments of painting in the lagoon, where in the late Baroque era masters such as Sebastiano Ricci and even more Tiepolo would visibly take up his example. Outside the Venetian area, Caliari had a strong influence on the Bolognese Annibale Carracci and even earlier on his brother Agostino, who in partnership with Paolo himself devoted himself to a successful activity of engraving translation of Veronese's pictorial production. Through the Carraccis, the art of Paolo Caliari became one of the important components of the future Italian Baroque painting. THE WORK WILL BE SHIPPED INSIDE A WOODEN CRATE AND WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY