He sits at the middle of the table with a gold halo.
Bible in art · John
The Marriage at Cana (Ms. 101, fol. 57v, from the Illustrated Vita Christi, with devotional supplements)
Unknown English painter · about 1480–1490
Getty Center, Los Angeles
From the same English picture life of Christ, made in East Anglia about 1480–1490. This picture belongs to the later part of the book: flatter colours, simple faces, and a short Latin text in red and black below.
Jesus sits at the table under a striped canopy between two women. In front, a servant in an orange tunic pours water from a jug into a row of tall grey jars.
From the text
- Six stone water jars for purification (John 2:6)
- “Fill the jars with water” (John 2:7)
The artist’s own
- Tall pewter-like jugs with feet instead of stone jars
- Clothes and hairstyles of England in the 1480s
Details
Jesus
A guest
A veiled woman raises her hands — perhaps Mary.
The servant
He pours water from a jug.
The jars
Five grey jars stand on the tiled floor.
Unknown illuminator, English (East Anglia). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (Ms. 101 (2008.3), fol. 57v) · Tempera colors and gold leaf, on parchment · Images provided here are believed to be in the public domain and are available under CC0 through Getty’s Open Content Program. (Getty record: "No Copyright", http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)