The marriage at Cana

Bononi, Carlo (1569-1632)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
ca. 1622
Height:
594.0 cm  (233 7/8 in.)
Width:
386.0 cm  (152 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on wall
Place of creation:
Ferrara

    Item location

  • Chiesa di Santa Maria in Vado (Ferrara)
    The painting is in the church along with other works by Carlo Bononi, Camillo Filippi and Domenico Mona.

Description

Banquet scene with a group of musicians in performance on the balcony above the guests. Three singers, one of whom is leading the ensemble, are accompanied by two instrumentalists on lute and tenor viol. Another musician is bringing a bass viola da gamba to join in. There are several other performers not playing but standing on the balcony with the other musicians. One of the musicians is leaning over the balcony to catch a page of music that has been dropped.

People as subjects

Jesus Christ (Non-musician/dancer)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Tenor viol [3591]
Viola da gamba [3604]

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

image link 1
Wikimedia image of the interior of the church showing part of the painting.

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 Valentini's article, which includes a detail of the portion of the painting depicting the musicians.

RIdIM record id

3423