Nozze di cana veronesi construction

From Original to Facsimile

Paolo Veronese (–), alongside Titian and Tintoretto the most important representative of Venetian Renaissance painting, received the commission on 6 June from the Benedictines of the San Giorgio Maggiore Monastery in Venice to paint The Wedding at Cana for their refectory.

Completed in , the monumental painting of m x m was for the back wall of the communal dining hall. Based on an account in the Gospel of John (–11), the painting depicts how, at a wedding in Galilee, Christ turned water into wine.

The depiction presents numerous guests entertaining themselves at a U-shaped table located below the balustrade of a bustling gallery.

In the middle ground beneath a blue, cloud-streaked sky, there is a contemporary campanile and, at both sides, antique architecture with columns. Jesus Christ is seated at the middle of the table with his mother Mary next to him, her empty left hand held as if she wer