The Marriage at Cana

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The Marriage at Cana

1740

John Baptist Jackson (British, c. 1701–c. 1780) After a painting by Paolo Veronese (Paolo di Gabriele Caliari) (Italian (active Verona, Venice, and environs) 1528–1588) Dedicated to Abbot Leopoldo Capello

Count Anton Maria Zanetti, a connoisseur and amateur printmaker, revived the medium of color woodcut (printing with two or more blocks in different colors) in Venice in the early 1720s to reproduce drawings by Renaissance masters. John Baptist Jackson arrived in Venice in 1731 and worked for Zanetti before receiving a commission from the British patron Joseph Smith to create a set of seventeen large-scale, color woodcuts of Venetian Renaissance paintings. This example reproduces Paolo Veronese's immense painting for the refectory of the church of San Giorgio Maggiore. Taken as loot by Napoleon Bonaparte to France, The Marriage at Cana now hangs in the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

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Object Details

Titles:

The Marriage at Cana
From the series Titiani Vecelii, Pauli Caliarii, Jacobi Robusti et Jacobi de Ponte: opera selectiora a Joanne Baptista Jackson, Anglo, ligno coelata et coloribus adumbrate (Venice: Giovanni Battista Pasquali, 1745)

Date:

1740

Artists:

Medium:

Color woodcut (chiaroscuro), printed from four blocks on two sheets of laid paper

Dimensions:

Block (overall): 22 13/16 x 32 11/16 inches (57.9 x 83 cm) Sheet (overall): 25 5/16 x 36 3/16 inches (64.3 x 91.9 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1985

Accession Number:

1985-52-3726

Geography:

Made in Venice, Italy, Europe

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