Venus and Mars with Cupid and a Horse

Veronese's most famous works are elaborate narrative cycles, executed in a dramatic and colorful Mannerist style, full of majestic architectural settings and glittering pageantry. His large paintings of biblical feasts executed for the refectories of monasteries in Venice and Verona are especially notable. His brief testimony with the Inquisition is often quoted for its insight into contemporary painting technique and demonstrates his skill at avoiding both the compromise of his art by their efforts and the harsh punishments they were capable of exacting. The painting's subject is taken from Ovid. Veronese painted various masterpieces with Mars and Venus myth, now owned by various museums.