Benedetto Caliari

Benedetto Caliari (1538–1598) was an Italian painter who was born into a family of artists. Benedetto’s father Gabriele Caliari was a stonecutter. Benedetto’s brother Paolo Caliari is better known as Veronese.

'Garden in a Venician Villa', painting by Benedetto Caliari, 1570-1580, Academia Carrara (Bérgamo, Italy).jpg

Life

Veronese’s principal assistants were his younger brother Benedetto Caliari and his two sons Carlo or Carletto Caliari (1570–1596) and Gabriele Caliari (1568–1631). Benedetto Caliari, who was about ten years younger than Veronese, is reputed to have had a very large share in the architectural backgrounds that form so conspicuous a feature in Veronese’s compositions. After Veronese’s death in 1588, Benedetto, Carlo and Gabriele completed his unfinished paintings. They often signed collectively as Paolo's heirs.

The Accademia Carrara (Bérgamo, Italy), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hermitage Museum,[1] the Honolulu Museum of Art, Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)[2] and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen are among the public collections holding works by Benedetto Caliari.

Gallery

The Deposition of Christ, painting by Benedetto Caliari, c. 1577, Honolulu Museum of Art

References

"Sacred Conversation".
"Susanna und die beiden Alten". www.khm.at (in German). Retrieved 2020-01-11.

Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 211.CS1 maint: location (link)
Freedberg, Sydney Joseph, Painting in Italy, 1500–1600, Penguin, Baltimore, 1975.

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[1] "Sacred Conversation".

[2] "Susanna und die beiden Alten". www.khm.at (in German). Retrieved 2020-01-11.