Paolo Veronese and the Nobility of Painting
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- ISBN 9781836391920
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 25 May 2026
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Paolo Veronese’s sumptuous paintings, with their vibrant colours and theatrical elegance, have often been admired for their surface beauty but also questioned for perceived excess and detachment. In this incisive study, Tom Nichols reconsiders Veronese’s pictorial language not as superficial display, but as a deliberate visual strategy that resisted the hierarchies and exclusions of sixteenth-century Venetian society. Through detailed analysis of major works, Nichols highlights the painter’s striking inclusion of marginal figures – women, servants, people of colour and the poor – within scenes of civic and sacred grandeur. Far from a passive decorator, Veronese emerges as a subtle commentator on power, dignity and the possibilities of art.
Tom Nichols is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. His previous books include Titian and the End of the Venetian Renaissance (2013), Tintoretto (2015) and Giorgione’s Ambiguity (2020), all published by Reaktion Books.
