Paolo Caliari was born in the Italian city of Verona, earning him the name Veronese. Whilst living in Verona, he studied art with Antonio Badile, before moving to Venice in around 1553. Along with fellow artist Tintoretto, and following in the footsteps of Titian, Veronese dominated the Venetian art scene. His differing use of colour, when compared with other painters of the Venetian school, and hints of his training in Verona, can be seen in his distinctive work.  He used a sumptuous but delicate palette in which pale blue, orange, silvery white, and lemon yellow were dominant. Veronese often painted religious scenes, transposing them to an incongruous Venetian setting, the saints bedecked in jewels and finery. He was often censured for this technique, which was viewed as sacrilegious. However, it enabled him to portray the splendour of life in Venice, a rich and triumphant City State. His love of richness and ornament fell foul of the Spanish Inquisition, who took him to task for crowding a painting of The Last Supper with such irrelevant and irreverent figures as "a buffoon with a parrot on his wrist, a servant whose nose was bleeding, dwarfs and similar vulgarities".