Island of San Giorgio Maggiore

12 October - 16 December 2007

With the unveiling, on 11th September, of the facsimile of The Wedding at Cana in the Palladian Refectory on San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, an exhibition dedicated to the painting will be inaugurated on the island. Entitled The Miracle of Cana. Originality through re-production, the exhibition has been designed and curated by the Giorgio Cini Foundation Institute of Art History and the Factum Arte atelier, Madrid, and made possible thanks to the collaboration of the Musée du Louvre. There are two main sections in the exhibition. Curated by Factum Arte, the first section will illustrate all the various stages in the creation of the facsimile through videos, images, panel presentations and the presence of some of most important instruments used to make the facsimile. The second explores the history and popularity of Veronese’s painting through videos and the display of a large literary and iconographic documentation consisting of ancient printed books and a series of copies or works derived from The Wedding at Cana. They include two major copies made at the end of the 16th century and the early 17th century (now in the Vicenza Civic Museum and the Giorgio Cini Foundation) and some engraved versions by Giovan Battista Vanni and John Baptist Jackson.