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The Wedding Feast at Cana. The Wedding Feast at Cana ( Nozze di Cana, 1562–1563), by Paolo Veronese, is a representational painting that depicts the biblical story of the Wedding at Cana, at which Jesus miraculously converts water into red wine ( John 2 :1–11). Executed in the Mannerist style (1520–1600) of the late Renaissance, the large ...
Paolo Caliari (1528 – 19 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese (/ ˌ v ɛr ə ˈ n eɪ z eɪ,-z i / VERR-ə-NAY-zay, -zee, also US: /-eɪ s i /-see, Italian: [ˈpaːolo veroˈneːze,-eːse]), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573).
Wedding at Cana. The wedding at Cana (also called the marriage at Cana, wedding feast at Cana or marriage feast at Cana) is the name of the story in the Gospel of John at which the first miracle attributed to Jesus takes place. [ 1][ 2] In the Gospel account, Jesus, his mother and his disciples are invited to a wedding at Cana in Galilee.
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The Feast in the House of Levi or Christ in the House of Levi is a 1573 oil painting by Italian painter Paolo Veronese and one of the largest canvases of the 16th century, measuring 560 cm × 1,309 cm (18.37 ft × 42.95 ft). [ 1] It is now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. It was painted by Veronese for a wall of a Dominican friary ...
The Veronese Riddle ( Italian: Indovinello veronese) is a riddle written in late Vulgar Latin, or early Romance, on the Verona Orational, probably in the 8th or early 9th century, by a Christian monk from Verona, in northern Italy. It is an example of a writing-riddle, a popular genre in the Middle Ages and still in circulation in recent times.
214.6 cm × 167 cm (84.5 in × 66 in) Location. The Frick Collection, New York. Allegory of Wisdom and Strength or Wisdom and Strength is a painting by Paolo Veronese, created circa 1565 in Venice, Italy and now located in the Frick Collection. It is a large-scale allegorical painting depicting Divine Wisdom personified on the left and Hercules ...
The Temptation of Saint Anthony is an often-repeated subject in the history of art and literature, concerning the supernatural temptation reportedly faced by Saint Anthony the Great during his sojourn in the Egyptian desert. Anthony's temptation is first discussed by Athanasius of Alexandria, Anthony's contemporary, and from then became a ...