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This book retells the great aesthetic, historical and technological story that began 450 years ago, in 1562, when the Benedictine monks in the monastery of San Giorgio commissioned Paolo Veronese to make a large painting of the Wedding at Cana. When completed, the canvas of about seventy square metres filled the entire rear wall of Palladio\u2019s Refectory, and was conceived as a glorious, logical trompe-l\u2019oeil complement to the architectural setting. The enduring chorus of praise and marvel induced Napoleon and the French \u2013 who had occupied Venice \u2013 to seize the work in 1797 as war reparations.
\nFor over two centuries, the wall had remained more or less blank, like an open wound that prevented people from experiencing the original atmosphere of the refectory. Then on 11 September 2007, exactly 210 years after the original\u2019s removal, Paolo Veronese\u2019s Wedding at Cana returned home in the form of a perfect facsimile made by Factum Arte, Madrid. At long last the work of art could once more be experienced directly and the overall unity, including the dialogue between architecture and painting, fully appreciated.
\nThe book is divided into three sections: 1) the story of the original painting still in the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Paris; 2) a detailed description of the technical processes involved in producing the facsimile; 3) critical reflections in the fields of aesthetics and art history about the significance of the operation and the new light it brings on issues in the conservation and restoration of art works.
\nAs many of the considerations in the third section show, the new perspectives created by the facsimile lead us to conceive the \u201caura\u201d of a painting in a dynamic way, as something which can effectively \u201cmigrate,\u201d from one place to another, from the original to its \u201ccopies\u201d. This English version is an updated and enhanced edition of the catalogue Il miracolo di Cana. L\u2019originalit\u00e0 della ri-produzione<\/em> (2007).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This book retells the great aesthetic, historical and technological story that began 450 years ago, in 1562, when the Benedictine monks in the monastery of San Giorgio commissioned Paolo Veronese to make a large painting of the Wedding at Cana. 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