Paolo Veronese

Paolo Caliari took his nickname from Verona, where he trained, and settled in Venice in the 1550s. With Titian and Tintoretto he dominated Venetian painting, known for luminous colour, silvery light and vast banquets set in marble architecture, such as The Wedding at Cana. In 1573 the Inquisition questioned him over the dogs, dwarfs and German soldiers in his Last Supper. Rather than change the picture, he renamed it The Feast in the House of Levi.