Paul Veronese

Overview

Paolo Veronese (Paul Véronèse, 1528–1588), Venetian painter of the Renaissance, famed for his colour and his huge banquet scenes; his Apotheosis of Venice (1585) is on the ceiling of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio in the Doge's Palace, Venice (RSR at 028.0180; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Veronese).

Relevance to Marie

Stub replaced. Dates and the Apotheosis details per the RSR and Wikipedia; the Venice painting mentioned at 039.0109 is her memory of that ceiling.

References in Diary

Marie sees herself in his Venice: her maid Marie «grande belle, blonde» resembles it in ugly (028.0180); she recalls the ceiling's blonde, fresh woman in explaining that photographs cannot show her whiteness (039.0109); in Florence she loves «la grasse et fraîche figure de la femme de Paolo Véronèse» (043.0167). In October 1876 a Veronese and a Dolci in the family house are only «dit-on» to be valued in Nice (067.0359). On 22 April 1882 at the Louvre he appears to her «dans toute sa splendeur», the richness of tones she had once found «ternes, grises et plates» (094.0428).