Paolo Veronese

Paolo Veronese (1528 – 19 April 1588) was an important Venetian Renaissance painter. His birth name was Paolo Cagliari or Paolo Caliari; he became known as "Veronese" from his birthplace in Verona.

Testimony to the Inquisition, (1573)
Testimony to the Inquisition in Venice (18 July 1573) as translated by Charles Yriarte


 * We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.
 * Unsourced variant translation: We painters take the same liberties as poets and madmen.


 * 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.


 * I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.

Quotes about Veronese

 * Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject. ... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.'''
 * Washington Allston, as quoted in The Quotable Artist (2002) by Peggy Hadden, p. 20


 * There are three Venetians that are never separated in my mind — Titian, Veronese, and Tintoret.
 * John Ruskin, in Art Culture : A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms (1877), p. 9