Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) belongs among the defining painters of the Venetian Renaissance, celebrated for luminous canvases and grand allegorical and mythological compositions. His drawing practice, carried out in pen with brown or gray wash and often heightened with white gouache, served as a laboratory for figures and groupings that reappear across his painted oeuvre. The seven sheets held here span oil on canvas alongside these works on paper, ranging from studies for the Allegories of Love and sketch groups of figures to a portrait of the sculptor Alessandro Vittoria. Dating reflects the Met's broad span, encompassing impressions up to 1585.

7 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

Allegory of the Redemption of the World

1528–88 · Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, highlighted with white gouache, on gray washed paper

Mars and Venus United by Love

1570s · Oil on canvas

Studies for The Allegories of Love

1570–75 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

Sketches for Compositions and Groups of Figures (recto and verso)

ca. 1568–88 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

Portrait of Alessandro Vittoria

ca. 1580 · Oil on canvas

Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Prison

ca. 1585 · Oil on canvas

Boy with a Greyhound

possibly 1570s · Oil on canvas