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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).
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.