Together with Titian and Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese was the most influential painter of the Venetian late Renaissance. Veronese was a master of colouring and executed both panel paintings and frescoes, which still can be seen in Venetian churches and in the villas of the Venetian nobility on the mainland. He was a much sought-after portraitist, but also produced large-scale altarpieces and history paintings. After having trained in Verona and having completed his first commissions, Paolo was invited to Venice. One of his first commissions there was to paint the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci in the Doge's Palace. Between 1555 and 1570, he decorated the church of San Sebastiano with both panel paintings and frescoes. Paolo Veronese influenced many subsequent generations of painters with his colouring and compositions. Centuries after Paolo's death, Eugène Delacroix wrote in a letter of 1859 that Paolo Veronese as a painter simply did “[...] what we have always been told is impossible… In my view, he is the only man who has penetrated the whole secret of nature."