Veronese turns the wedding where Christ changed water into wine into a Venetian banquet of some 130 guests in rich silks, framed by columns and a Palladian tower. The Benedictines of San Giorgio Maggiore commissioned it for their refectory and asked for the finest colours, including ultramarine. Napoleon's troops took it in 1797, and it is the largest painting in the Louvre.
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In the foreground a group of musicians plays viols. A 17th-century tradition identifies them as Venetian painters: Veronese in white, Titian in red on the bass viol.
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