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| Benedictine monks commissioned Italian artist Paolo Veronese to paint The Marriage at Cana (1562-1563, Louvre Museum, Paris, France) to decorate the refectory of their monastery at San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. The painting depicts the marriage banquet at which Christ turned water into wine. The subject allowed Veronese to paint a stagelike scene crowded with characters from 16th-century Venice. Veronese arranged the scene so as to impart a lively sense of movement from one figure to another, almost as if they were dancers on a stage. | ||||||
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| Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY | ||||||
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| Veronese, Paolo; Genre Painting | ||||||
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