The marriage at Cana

Garofalo (1481-1559)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1531
Height:
306.0 cm  (120 1/2 in.)
Width:
248.0 cm  (97 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Ferrara

    Item location

  • Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (State Hermitage Museum | Государственный Эрмитаж)

Description

Depicts the wedding banquet at Cana with two musicians mid-performance on the steps above the guests. Jesus is seen performing the transformation of water into wine in the foreground of the painting.

People as subjects

Jesus Christ

Iconclass

42D25
wedding feast, wedding meal

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]
Lira da braccio [3181]

Image URLs

image link 1
Museum image. Click to enlarge

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.

RIdIM record id

3433