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The Wedding at Cana
1563 · huile sur toile (oil on canvas) · Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Above the head of Christ, up on the balcony, a servant carves meat, and Kate Hanson reads it as the Lamb of God, cut for a wedding. Below, Christ and Our Lady sit facing out, still as icons in Hanson's reading, while the guests turn and talk and the musicians play in front of them. Somewhere in the crowd the steward has tasted "the water made wine and knew not whence it was," and stops astonished. The Louvre records that Benedictine monks in Venice commissioned the canvas from Veronese in 1562 for their refectory and that it was seized in 1797; Cynthia Saltzman names that seizure a war indemnity taken by Napoleon's troops. David Rosand, as Hanson reports, traced one axis through the feast: the carver, the head of Christ, an hourglass on the musicians' table. Christ sits between the Lamb and the hourglass, His hour 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)