The Miracle of Cana. Originality through re-production

With the unveiling, on 11th September, of the facsimile of The Wedding at Cana in the Palladian Refectory on San Giorgio Maggiore, an exhibition dedicated to the painting has been 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 illustrates 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. Charles Lebrun’s The Feast of the Pharisee with Mary Magdalene at Christ’s Feet is also on show. Other items on show include ancient printed books, such as Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, Veduta del refettorio di San Giorgio Maggiore, Marco Boschini, La Carta del Navegar pitoresco.
The facsimile is sponsored by Enel, Casinò di Venezia, Consorzio Venezia Nuova, Fondazione Banco di Sicilia and San Pellegrino.
The Miracle of Cana. Originality through re-production is a section in a large travelling exhibition on the theme Facsimiles. Originality through (digital) reproduction, curated by Bruno Latour and Adam Lowe, organised by Factum Arte in collaboration with the Giorgio Cini Foundation. The exhibition goes to many world museums, including the ZKM, Karlsruhe, and the Centraal Museum, Utrecht.

Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
15 September – 12 December 2007

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