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Allegory of the Course of Human Life (Choosing Virtue)
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Allegory of the Course of Human Life (Choosing Virtue)

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with heightening in opaque white; framing lines in pen and brown ink, by the artist

Dimensions

Sheet: 8 1/2 × 11 3/4 in. (21.6 × 29.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Acquisitions Fund, 2014

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari)

1528–1588Republic of Venice

Veronese was one of the three most influential painters of the Venetian late Renaissance, with Titian and Tintoretto. He is known as a supreme colorist and for his illusionistic decorations in both fresco and oil, famed for biblical feasts executed for the refectories, altarpieces, history and mythological paintings and portraits. He headed a family workshop that remained active after his death.