Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) Figure playing a Lute Brown ink 6 x 4 cm Italian painter and draughtsman. With Titian and Tintoretto, Veronese makes up the triumvirate of great painters of the later Renaissance in Venice. Known as a supreme colourist and for his illusionistic decorations in both fresco and oil. His large paintings of biblical feasts executed for the refectories of monasteries in Venice and Verona are especially celebrated. He also produced many altar-pieces, history and mythological paintings and portraits. His compositional sketches in pen, ink and wash, figure studies in chalk and chiaroscuro modelli and ricordi form a significant body of drawings.