La historia de Las Bodas de Cana de Paolo Veronés - The Wedding at Cana

How Paolo Caliari buried the great master Giorgione for a second time under the colors of his palette, and the swings of the protagonists of the monumental work that marveled Europe for centuries.
The work recounts, in a literary tone, the rugged and laborious remodeling of the central scene of the painting from its beginnings to the providential arrival of Ortiz, along with the vicissitudes and misadventures suffered by its author.

Bilingual Edition: Spanish-English
International Conference of Music Patronage in Italy from the 15th to the 18th-Century. Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini. Lucca, Complesso Monumentale di San Micheletto. 16-18 November, 2019.
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We are proposing that the Spanish musician Diego Ortiz is represented in Paolo Veronese’s famous mannerist picture "The Wedding at Cana". Specifically, we suggest that he is the person who seems to be making comments to Veronese, as the conductor of a viola da gamba ensemble. Presumably, the author of the picture represents the musician as one of the most significant contemporary exponents of this instrument. We derive our proposals and conclusions from the few available biographical data of Diego Ortiz, his portraits in his treatise and in Veronesne’s canvas, and from an analysis of the repeated and unsuccessful trials in the literature to identify this personage.
We also suggest that the Venetian painter Giorgio da Castelfranco (named Giorgione), was represented in the initial design of the painting at the position of Ortiz and then painted over.

Alessandro Vittoria portrayed a large number of relevant contemporary characters in stone there in Venice, and at the same time, he was also portrayed by distinguished artists and friends. One of them, Paolo Caliari, included him in his formidable Wedding at Cana (1563) canvas, along with tens of Venetian and international authorities, renowned local Venetian artists, as well as ecclesiastical authorities and influential people associated to the Benedictine Order. For several decades, Alessandro was a regular collaborator to the author of the canvas and some of those depicted in there: We think that he could be the fifth commensal placed to the left of Jesus Christ.