![CALIARI, Paolo, known as VERONESE (1528-1588). Autograph letter signed ('Paolo Caliari Pittore') to Marcantonio Gandini ('Molto Mag[nifi]co S[igno]re mio'), [Venice], 5 January 1578, one page, 4to, on a bifolium with integral address leaf (faint stain touching the word 'Pittore', lower of blank verso restored to size).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/CKS/2007_CKS_07411_0270_000(022248).jpg?w=1)
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CALIARI, Paolo, known as VERONESE (1528-1588). Autograph letter signed ('Paolo Caliari Pittore') to Marcantonio Gandini ('Molto Mag[nifi]co S[igno]re mio'), [Venice], 5 January 1578, one page, 4to, on a bifolium with integral address leaf (faint stain touching the word 'Pittore', lower of blank verso restored to size).
Veronese writes to his assistant Gandini in Treviso regarding negociations about a property in the country that they were planning to buy in association with his brother Benedetto (also a painter, with whom he frequently collaborated); he firmly draws attention to the fact that they should secure not just the house but the land and its surroundings: 'è bene a eser assoluti patroni per atenderli senza impedimenti a lei dico che [...] in casa mia sara resoluto PATRONE'.
Paolo Caliari was one of the great painters of the Italian Renaissance, known as a supreme colourist in both fresco and oil and for his illusionistic decorations. Born in Verona, he settled in the 1550s in Venice; by 1578 he had produced many of the great decorative scenes in the Doge's palace that would culminate in the Triumph of Venice, begun the following year.
Veronese writes to his assistant Gandini in Treviso regarding negociations about a property in the country that they were planning to buy in association with his brother Benedetto (also a painter, with whom he frequently collaborated); he firmly draws attention to the fact that they should secure not just the house but the land and its surroundings: 'è bene a eser assoluti patroni per atenderli senza impedimenti a lei dico che [...] in casa mia sara resoluto PATRONE'.
Paolo Caliari was one of the great painters of the Italian Renaissance, known as a supreme colourist in both fresco and oil and for his illusionistic decorations. Born in Verona, he settled in the 1550s in Venice; by 1578 he had produced many of the great decorative scenes in the Doge's palace that would culminate in the Triumph of Venice, begun the following year.
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