Veronese

¹

[ ver-uh-neez, -nees ]

adjective

1. of or relating to the city or town of Verona.

noun

, plural Ver·o·nese.

1. a native or inhabitant of Verona.

Veronese

²

[ ver-uh-ney-zee; Italian ve-raw-ne-ze ]

noun

1. Pa·o·lo [pah, -aw-law], Paolo Cagliari, 1528–88, Venetian painter.

Veronese

/ veroˈneːse /

noun

1. VeronesePaolo15281588MItalianARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Paolo (ˈpaːolo), original name Paolo Cagliari or Caliari. 1528–88, Italian painter of the Venetian school. His works include The Marriage at Cana (1563) and The Feast of the Levi (1573)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Veronese¹

First recorded in 1750–60; Veron(a) + -ese

Example Sentences

Cats abound in Baudelaire's verse, as dogs in the pictures of Paul Veronese, and form there a kind of signature.

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Then there were Tintoretto and Veronese, almost as interesting to our painter.

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He has quite a Veronese power of combining his human groups with splendid architecture.

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The only picture of Veronese's that I remember here is a portrait of his wife when her beauty was gone.

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Do you not suppose that the soul of a Veronese imbibes colour like a piece of stuff plunged into the boiling vat of a dyer?

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