Paolo Veronese

“Art is the celebration of the world. It does not seek to evoke sin, guilt, torment, distress and fear.” With these words, Veronese (1528-88) successfully defended the supposed irreverence of his work before the Inquisition. Shot on location in Venice, this sumptuous study of the sixteenth-century master, his works, life and times, reveals the deeper interaction between sensuousness and faith that lies beneath the careless beauty, wit and gaiety of his art.