It was common for surnames to be taken from a father's profession, and thus Veronese was known as Paolo Spezapreda. The census in Verona attests that Veronese was born sometime in 1528 to a stonecutter, or spezapreda in the Venetian language, named Gabriele, and his wife Caterina.
Veronese took his usual name from his birthplace of Verona, then the largest possession of Venice on the mainland. 1547, Castelvecchio Museum Birth and names may be counted among his admirers, including Rubens, Watteau, Tiepolo, Delacroix, and Renoir".
Nonetheless, "many of the greatest artists. He has always been appreciated for "the chromatic brilliance of his palette, the splendor and sensibility of his brushwork, the aristocratic elegance of his figures, and the magnificence of his spectacle", but his work has been felt "not to permit expression of the profound, the human, or the sublime", and of the "great trio" he has often been the least appreciated by modern criticism. Most of these works remain in situ, or at least in Venice, and his representation in most museums is mainly composed of smaller works such as portraits that do not always show him at his best or most typical. His large paintings of biblical feasts, crowded with figures, painted for the refectories of monasteries in Venice and Verona are especially famous, and he was also the leading Venetian painter of ceilings. His most famous works are elaborate narrative cycles, executed in a dramatic and colorful style, full of majestic architectural settings and glittering pageantry. Oil on canvas, 236.2cm × 475.9 cm, National Gallery, London. The Family of Darius before Alexander (1565–1570).
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