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Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)(1528-1588),

• Was an Italian Renaissance painter.
• He was based in Venice.
• Known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology.
• He was born in Verona - hence his nickname`Veronese`. • His father was a stonecutter and his mother was the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman called Caliari, a name artist adopted in 1550s.
• He was trained in Verona by Antonio Badile (about 1518-1560).
• Veronese is one of the "great trio, together with Titian and Tintoretto,  that dominated Venetian painting of the cinquecento" and the Late Renaissance in the 16th century.
• Veronese ran a large workshop, assisted by his brother Benedetto and his sons Gabriele and Carlo.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Mars and Venus United by Love.
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