Three men and two women sit or stand along the far side of a long table, with more people looking on or gathered in other rooms behind them in this tall, vertical painting. All the people have pale skin. The long table stretches nearly the width of the painting. Near the left edge of the painting, a woman wearing a teal-blue robe over a white head scarf holds her hands together in front of her chest in prayer, and she looks down and to our right toward the tabletop. Next to her, a bearded man wearing a loose, eggplant-purple robe, Jesus, holds his right hand, to our left, up in front of his…
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The Marriage at Cana

Master of the Catholic Kings (Spanish, active c. 1485/1500)

c. 1495/1497

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall (original painted surface): 137.1 x 92.7 cm (54 x 36 1/2 in.) ; overall (with addition at bottom): 153.1 x 92.7 cm (60 1/4 x 36 1/2 in.) ; overall (with added border strips): 155.7 x 95.8 cm (61 5/16 x 37 11/16 in.) ; framed:…
Culture
Castilian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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