Despite difficulties over attribution and other mysteries, he was key to the development of the Venetian style.
Veronese
Veronese used a narrative form which only works in paintings and other visual media, and is still used in popular children’s books.
Wonderful paintings of a gruesome story: that of Judith and Holofernes, by Veronese, Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi.
The strongest and most moving narrative can be the simplest: one woman and one dagger.
We should add these Masters to the growing list of those with ‘painterly’ style, and consider whether Impressionism was a development of Venetian ‘colorito’ painting?
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