World culture: The largest in the history of Britain exhibition of Veronese opens in London

The largest in the history of Britain exhibition of Italian artist Paolo Veronese opens on March 19, 2014 in London's National Gallery.

The exhibition titled "Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice" presents 50 best works of the master, as most of the collection of the National Gallery and other top museum collections of the world - from the U.S., Spain, Italy, Germany and France.

The exhibition contains the best works relating to all genres in which Veronese worked, and all periods of his work - from the earliest attribution of paintings to the "Address of St. Panteleimon", written a year before the artist's death.

Many of the paintings, including "The Martyrdom of St. George", "Betrothal of St. Catherine" - never exhibited in the UK before. Some of the works by Veronese have not "met" each other for a few hundred years, and two "Adoration of the Magi" - never since they left the artist's studio. Among the key exhibits, curators call three portraits belonging to the first years of the artist's stay in Venice - two "Portrait of a Gentleman" and the portrait of a woman, known as "Beauty Nani".

The exhibition "Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice" will last until June 15, 2014.