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The Marriage at Cana
Also titled De bruiloft in Kana
c. 1530 - c. 1532
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 66.5 cm x width 85 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
In this night scene – a novelty in painting at the time – Vermeyen succeeded in creating a dramatic effect. Candlelight plays over the faces and casts dark shadows. For the flames, Vermeyen used gold leaf. He was well ahead of his time: only around 1600 did the nocturn as a genre become more widely known through the Italian artist Caravaggio.
