20 PAOLO VERONESE Justina of Padua was a Christian martyr who is reputed to have died under the (Paolo Caliari) persecutions of Emperor Maximian of Rome (A.D. 305­11). This highly finished Italian, 1528­1588 and beautiful modello (see no. 13) was made in preparation for the altarpiece painted The Martyrdom of Saint Justina by Veronese and his studio in 1574­75 for the Church of Santa Giustina in Padua, Pen and gray ink, gray wash, built in the fifth century on the site of the saint's martyrdom and restored by the heightened with white bodycolor on Benedictines in the sixteenth century. With a sword piercing her breast, Justina is (faded) blue paper; squared in black chalk represented as a richly dressed young princess surrounded by her tormentors, including 47 x 24cm (18½ x 9 7/16 in.) two Roman soldiers standing to the left, while putti descend from heaven bearing her Cat. II, no. 49; 87.GA.92 martyr's crown and palm. The creamy white bodycolor, applied with the point of the brush, is extraordinarily sensitive and varied in its effect—from the thickly painted, brilliant white light of the heavens, in the upper part of the drawing, to the more thinly applied highlights in the draperies of the figures below. The drawing is squared (see no. 9). Veronese, who, as his name suggests, came from Verona, was one of the great painters of the late Venetian Renaissance. His attractive use of color, his fondness for rich ornament, together with the inventiveness of his compositions and the relaxed demeanor of his figures, anticipate eighteenth­century Venetian painting. He was influenced by the great Venetian of an older generation, Titian. 26 ITALIAN SCHOOL