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The Miracle at Cana
Artist: Wilhelm Borremans
 1717    Painting

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The wedding at Cana is the name of the story in the Gospel of John at which the first miracle attributed to Jesus takes place. In the Gospel account, Jesus, his mother and his disciples are invited to a wedding at Cana in Galilee. When his mother notices that the wine has run out, Jesus delivers a sign of his divinity by turning water into wine at her request.  The account is taken as evidence of Jesus' approval of marriage and earthly celebrations.

Borremans painted this ceiling fresco for the Church of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio ("The Martorana"), in Palermo, Sicily.  The Cana Miracle (Jesus turns water into wine) has been favored in Christian art from the earliest times. In the 4th century it was depicted on many sarcophagi, and it was a common subject in medieval and Renaissance art.

The ceiling fresco adopts a more modest version of the di sotto in su style popular at the time in larger Italian churches. The device allows the artist two points of emphasis. Jesus' gesture to the jars dramatically "below" is one, and the bride placed at the exact center of the composition is the other. 

The Miracle of the Slave
Artist: Tintoretto
 1548    Painting

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A crowd of figures stand gathered around a fallen nude male, seeming to express various states of shock and confusion. A single figure in a pale, green robe and white turban turns away, holding a broken hammer up for the benefit of a startled leader who leans forward, nearly standing, from of his elevated, seated position. An angelic figure hovers over the event. The overall composition of Tintoretto's religious painting, The Miracle of the Slave, although set within an opulent Roman courtyard, is intense with action. This miraculous event depicts the moment a slave, the nude figure, is about to be punished for praying to relics of Saint Mark which his master had forbidden. Three times the executioner attempted to levy the punishment, and each time the tools have broken before the slave could be harmed. This is the work of Saint Mark who, in dramatic fashion, descends from heaven in a red robe and billowing orange cape to rescue the slave and spare him the suffering associated with this painful death. This miracle also converts the slave's master to embrace the Christian faith. 

This painting is oil on canvas and is housed in the  Collection of Gallerie Dell'Accademia, Venice.

 

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