Since its completion in 1563, Paolo Veronese's 32-foot-long painting The Wedding Feast at Cana has been a true object of admiration. Firstly, an image with religious resonance for the Benedictine monks of Venice's San Giorgio Maggiore Monastery, on the small island across from Saint Mark's, who came before it daily in the past, and secondly a superb masterwork filled with aesthetic significance for the countless artists it inspired eversince
