The marriage at Cana

Bononi, Carlo (1569-1632)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1622
Height:
688.0 cm  (270 7/8 in.)
Width:
355.0 cm  (139 3/4 in.)
Place of creation:
Ferrara

    Item location

  • Pinacoteca Nazionale di Ferrara
    [Museum inv. no.: 144]

Description

This work was painted for the monastery of San Cristoforo della Certosa in Ferrara. Banquet scene with a group of musicians preparing to play on the balcony above the guests. One musician directs the ensemble, which includes several singers, a lute player, an organist, and a bellows operator.

People as subjects

Jesus Christ (Non-musician/dancer)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Organ [2266]

Image URLs

image link 1
Museum image.

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

3431