Grace and Grandeur

Op the triumvirate of 16th-century Venetian painters, Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese best conveyed Venice's civic splendor. His masterpieces in the Doge's Palace conferred on the Republic a magnificence and authority that was rapidly dwindling by the end of the Renaissance. But on a private level, he also reshaped the fashions of the Serenissima through a steady stream of portrait commissions. Many members of Venice's most elite families sat for Veronese, as did notable artists and authors, including Titian and Sir Phillip Sidney. This book offers the first comprehensive study of the approximately forty portraits that survive. Relevant issues of social history, class insecurity, and poetic convention are all brought to bear in deciphering the meanings of these images and what they reveal about the painter and his clientele.Garton, John is the author of 'Grace and Grandeur', published 2007 under ISBN 9781905375233 and ISBN 1905375239.