The Wedding at Cana
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A servant slices meat above Christ's head — the Lamb of God, cut into a wedding feast. Christ and the Virgin sit frontal and motionless at the center, still as icons amid the swirl of guests, while a steward tastes the wine before them and stops, astonished.
Benedictine monks in Venice commissioned it for their refectory in 1562. Napoleon's troops seized it as war indemnity in 1797.
David Rosand traced a central axis: the carver's lamb, Christ's head, an hourglass on the musicians' table. Before the waterpots were filled, Christ had told his mother: my hour is not yet come.
Sources: Confirms 1562 Benedictine commission, refectory setting, and the 1797 seizure/1798 Louvre transfer as the Louvre's own wording · Kate Hanson, "The Language of the Banquet," In[Visible] Culture, Issue 14 · Cynthia Saltzman, Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast (2021) · Parsons & Hornik, The Christian Century · John 2:4, 2:7, Douay-Rheims (Challoner).
And when the chief steward had tasted the water made wine and knew not whence it was, but the waiters knew who had drawn the water: the chief steward calleth the bridegroom,
John 2:9 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 10,068 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.