Paolo Veronese

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The lights were all trained on Sanmicheli and Veronese, two giants of the 16th Century in Verona from the beginning of the grand commemorative and monumental nineteenth-century season. At first, the city had planned to place this sculpture at the head of a series of statues arranged similarly to those in Prato della Valle in Padua. Later, they were assigned to Piazza dei Signori, but instead the Monument to Dante was unveiled in 1865.\r\nThe unfortunate Veronese, for whom Della Torre had presented this sketch, could not find a location, and so his work languished. Della Rotte was a tormented romantic artist who found solace in Florence after participating in the Milan riots, and disappeared at the tender age of twenty-eight without leaving any public marks on the city. His sketch was only translated into marble in 1888 by Romeo Cristani; it was first placed in front of Sant'Anastasia and finally relocated to the Giarina Gardens in 1919.\r\nPaolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese (1528 – 19 April 1588), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, renowned for his large-format history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573). Alongside Titian, a generation older, and Tintoretto, a decade senior, Veronese was one of the "great trio that dominated Venetian painting of the cinquecento" and the Late Renaissance in the 16th century. As a supreme colorist, and after an early period with Mannerism, Paolo Veronese developed a naturalistic style of painting, influenced by Titian.