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''The Wedding at Cana'' (or ''The Wedding Feast at Cana'') is a massive oil painting by the late-Renaissance or Mannerist Italian painter Paolo Veronese. It is on display in the Musée du Louvre in Paris, where it is the largest painting in that museum's collection. ==History== The painting depicts the Wedding Feast at Cana, a miracle story from the Christian New Testament. In the story, Jesus and his disciples were invited to a wedding celebration in Cana in the Galilee. Towards the end of the feast, when the wine was running out, Jesus commanded servants to fill jugs with water, which he then turned into wine (his first miracle of seven, as recounted in the Gospel according to John). The piece was commissioned in 1562 by the Benedictine Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy, and completed in fifteen months by the year 1563. It hung in the refectory of the monastery for 235 years, until it was plundered by Napoléon in 1797 and shipped to Paris. The painting was cut in half for the journey and stitched back together in Paris. It was not returned in the post-Napoléonic conciliation treaties which pursued some restitution of looted artworks, and in its stead a feeble Charles Le Brun painting (''Feast in the House of Simon'') was shipped to Venice. The painting was taken to Brest and stored in a box during the Franco-Prussian War and rolled up and moved around France in a truck during World War II.〔 In 1989, the Louvre began a $1 million renovation, comparable to the work done on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. A group of artists calling themselves the Association to Protect the Integrity of Artistic Heritage protested and demanded a review of the restoration.〔 In June 1992, with the restoration incomplete, the Louvre was embarrassed when the painting suffered damage in two separate incidents. In the first, the canvas was spattered by water from a leaking air vent. In the second, two days later, curators were raising the 1.5 ton painting to a higher position on the wall when one of the supports gave way, and the entire painting toppled to the floor. The metal framework tore five holes in the canvas, one of them four feet long; architectural and background areas of the painting were affected, but no faces. The museum was criticized for keeping the incident private for an entire month while rumors swirled.〔 On 11 September 2007, the 210th anniversary of the looting of the painting by Napoleon's troops, a facsimile of the original was hung in its original place in the Palladian Refectory. The computerized facsimile was commissioned by the Giorgio Cini Foundation of Venice with the collaboration of the Musée du Louvre, Paris, where the original remains, and made by Factum Arte, a Madrid-based team of artists and conservators, founded and directed by the British artist Adam Lowe. It consists of 1,591 computer graphic files. (See (Returning "Les Noces de Cana" )). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Wedding at Cana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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