Pupil of Antonio Badile, a painter of Verona. Already after the first works, he moved to Venice in 1555, thanks to important contacts that creates in the world of the nobility. In the same year he begins, in the church of San Sebastiano, its decorative activity with numerous works, church in which he will then be buried at his death. In Venice he meets Daniele Barbaro, who in 1560 commissions him the decoration of his villa near Castelfranco; Villa Barbaro at Maser in which cooperates with Palladio. In 1557 he was awarded by Tiziano for his participation in the Marciana Library and begins producing those extraordinary paintings that made him famous, such as The Nozze di Cana for San Giorgio Maggiore (now in the Louvre museum) and The Convito in Levi’s house for St. John and Paul (now at the Academy) for which he was also prosecuted by the Inquisition. Since the mid-‘70s, he was the protagonist of the decoration in Palazzo Ducale. In the last decade of activity, Veronese softens the use of color, strongly influenced by the paintings of Tiziano, and in later works, such as Lucrezia now found in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, first hints of a prebarocco comes out.
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