The marriage at Cana

Scarsella, Ippolito (1551-1620)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1611

Height:

283.0 cm  (111 7/16 in.)

Width:

604.0 cm  (237 13/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Place of creation:

Ferrara

Description

Depicts the wedding banquet at Cana with musicians on the left side of the painting, near the table where Jesus is seen performing the transformation of water into wine.

People as subjects

Jesus Christ (Non-musician/dancer)

Iconclass

42D25
wedding feast, wedding meal

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]
Viola da gamba [3604]

Bibliographic references

Valentini, Anna. "Musicians in early seventeenth-century banqueting scenes in Ferrara", Music in art 38/1-2 (2013) 37-48. RILM 2013-8535.

Notes

This entry has been completed using information from Anna Valentini's article. According to Valentini, who draws from Barbara Ghelfi's Scarscellino chronology, this work dates to 1611 "on the basis of an autograph payment document" (see Valentini 2013, 47).

RIdIM record id

3416