The painting depicts the wedding feast at Cana(Veronese), a miracle story from the Christian New Testament. In the story Jesus and his disciples were invited to a wedding celebration in Cana, Galilee. Towards the end of the feast, when the wine was running out, Jesus commanded servants to fill jugs with water, which he turned into wine (his first miracle of seven). The piece was commissioned in 1562 by the Benedictine monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy, and complet

ed in fifteen months by the year 1563. It hung 2.5 metres from the floor in the monastery for 235 years, until it was plundered by Napoléon in 1797, and shipped to Paris. The painting was cut in half for the journey and stitched back together in Paris.[1] In the post-Napoléonic conciliation treaties which pursued some restitution of looted artworks, this was not returned, and in its stead, a feeble Charles Le Brun painting (now at the Gallerie dell'Accademia) was shipped to Venice