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Gaetano Gandolfi: The Marriage at Cana  wikidata:Q18748527 reasonator:Q18748527
Artist
Gaetano Gandolfi  (1734–1802)  wikidata:Q1491011
 
Gaetano Gandolfi
Alternative names
San Matteo della Decima
Description Italian painter
Date of birth/death 31 August 1734 / 30 August 1734 Edit this at Wikidata 20 June 1802 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death San Giovanni in Persiceto Edit this at Wikidata Bologna, Italy
Work period Baroque
Work location
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artist QS:P170,Q1491011
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Title
The Marriage at Cana
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: This scene depicts the first miracle of Christ, related in the Gospel of John. At a wedding, after all the wine had been drunk, Jesus ordered six jars to be filled with water, which he then turned into wine. Here, Jesus points to the jars while his mother gazes reverently at him.

Gandolfi introduces a variety of figures, including both an oriental man wearing a turban and an African servant, and anecdotal details (the fighting animals), resulting in a liveliness of pictorial expression comparable to Tiepolo.

This work was the "modello" (preparatory version) for an enormous canvas painted for the eating hall in the convent of San Salvatore in Bologna and now in the National Museum there.
Date 1766 (Baroque
era QS:P2348,Q37853
)
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions Painted surface H to arched top: 33 15/16 x W: 44 1/8 in. (86.2 x 112 cm)
Stretcher height: 89 cm (35 in); width: 112 cm (44 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,89U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,112U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.1919
Place of creation Bologna, Italy
Object history
  • The Counts Grassi, Bologna [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
  • Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 95
  • 1897 catalogue: no. 410, as G. B. Tiepolo]
  • 1902: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history Bella Pittura: The Art of the Gandolfi. Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. 1993. Tiepolo Unveiled: The Restoration of a Masterpiece. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1996.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
References Federico Zeri (1976) (in English) Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, no. 442 , pp. 553 OCLC: 2463997.
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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