Witness how Christ's first miracle unfolds almost in slow motion, with every glance, gesture and movement drawing us closer to the exact moment water becomes wine. Join Curator Imogen Tedbury and Conservator Paul Ackroyd as they reveal how Mattia Preti transforms ‘The Marriage at Cana’ into a moment suspended in time.
Follow the story behind the National Gallery's only work by Preti – a painting shaped by both Preti's artistic influences, including Paolo Veronese, and by his rivalry with fellow painter Luca Giordano. The painting suffered water damage before coming into the National Gallery's collection, necessitating its restoration treatment by Paul.
Curators and conservators discuss a Baroque painting by Mattia Preti depicting the biblical story of the Wedding at Cana. The presentation covers the narrative flow of the artwork, the technical restoration process used to repair paint loss, and the stylistic influences of the Neapolitan school and Venetian art.
This dog is a wonderful special one.
We will see each of its components from its journeys.
It's giving us the truth.
That is the type of character we are introducing
I'm into painting in some way.
The only other person doing that is the Mayor.
In the gallery, this painting is very important.
It is a unique painting by Preti.
This painting concerns the gesture.
The gesture and the pointing and the pointing
leading us through the narrative period.
His name is Paul Ackroyd.
The Minister for Production and I are building the paint shop.
A fi yw Imogen Tedbury,
I am one of the curators, and I'm looking after the paintings.
A Frenchman from last year. This painter from the collection is from Wales.
It is a story from the Bible, from the Gospel of John, and it is
The first census of his own, the first census of his endeavor,
The Church has been introduced to meet with its son,
Mary, a number of the students.
They have already been introduced to the meeting, and the charm has succeeded.
Mary is realizing that
It was a joy to succeed, and she noted that to the Church,
to write the water to bloom.
We see the story
The planning is taking place with a significant shift.
Mary is looking out at us.
We have this idea of its connection,
I don't know what's going on.
With its gesture, it performs the transformation of water into wine.
to be fed by the ministers here.
The prize is being converted here,
The water minister has fully rewritten this one,
It is not possible to feed wine for this.
This man has been very well taught here,
the university, perhaps the minister of the day,
the character who enhances the face and its recognition
and this face is better than the face
they were enjoying it first,
It's important for you to keep up your best appearance until the end.
I must first protect your best face.
We have this period of ours right now
The examination is being conducted with exceptional diligence by the university.
Paint the glass to enhance the new design featuring diverse landscapes.
You can see another flash of the beauty in this picture.
This appears to be suspicious.
not only by the university itself, but also by the university.
As moving forward to the table, moving in the intended direction,
We observe significant production on these fields.
This man looks with incredible concentration.
On the other hand, we are connecting to something more general,
Something of a gathering is taking place in the depths.
A people taking plates and serving them, and speaking, and the rest of the things.
I've come from a distant land, and this man's fate is sealed.
fall in the main universities, establishing
on the table. It sees what is happening too, but it sees the
This activity is there.
Felly, we have the meeting of the story that is happening in a
Effective methods, very good indeed, very beautiful indeed.
The painting has lost much of its painting.
A large number of people were surprised that he had succeeded at some point.
Especially in this area, where it appears that little water has
The paint has been applied to them, and the paint has been applied.
There are also a few other discrepancies continuing in the discussion as well,
At the center point where the deficiency and water meet.
The painting is done
to be taught it.
The buildings constructed in 1964 were successful.
The painting has been completed, and now I'm finishing the details.
There are many shortcomings in the course,
they were caused by the painting having failed
The densest part of its history.
This means that you will have to write it out
loads with some kind of letter, and I am using a letter
a gelatin, which is contributed by
pigment is the means of imitating the load of the right,
And a swarm of bees is imagining.
When the loads were put in to make the loads
along with the plane from the painting,
I am now required to texture those loads because the paint
Yes, when you look at it, it has been pushed aside,
my painting has various types of impasto in parts,
I'm trying my best to imitate that outside.
That having paint in food like this shows
your topography and painting doing
It's much easier to distinguish the text of the body. If I hadn't been
do that and I put the files in and set them up
Hand in hand, then when I come to debate the painting,
That success would look great on our resume.
You will see many glossy paintings,
gloss for painting. Therefore, they need to be
They will be treated in such a way that they will not be visible at all.
Felly, this is the land of the land, the land of blood, the land of blood.
Felly, it's a very good way to produce quickly.
When you have this land of milk,
the entire dairy area
its production must be fully national.
When the fillings have actually been worked into real life over a lifetime,
Oh, the bath, oh, the bath.
The laces have been soaked through over the fire
I regret to inform you
The clashes between the crowd and the fire.
The sketched fillings have been painted
with the heat of the fire creating a glow
When I saw you throw a bunch of men over something fiery
Thank you.
I'll give you a blue pill. It's related to the effect of turbid thinking.
It's completely clear to me in this case.
Just a little box, rough and ready.
Does dim ffug ffug yn y sgai hwn o'r hollwaith.
We are now one of the forward-thinking studios planning ahead,
To see the painting as part of the way through the building process.
Mathieu Preti, along with his friends, Luca Giordano,
He was one of the most important artists of the Neapolitan Baroque.
Giordano was just a little bit younger than Preti.
It was some kind of child's prank.
And there he was, painting very quickly.
I believe Preti has responded to this kind of discrimination.
I also want to paint quickly.
They all took part in it.
for computers, even when...
Preti died in Gwmoltau after 1661–1662,
he received accounts from Naples,
It would have been necessary to act against Giordano.
The painting shows interest.
Neapolitan in some kind of tenebrism
inspired by Caravaggio and his followers.
Daddylen ni tenebrism, we'll be producing a certain kind of series
between the hand and the future.
This painting exemplifies some kind of Neo-Venetian interest.
Felly, the difference lies in
and the work of Veronese, the interest in Venetian art of the 16th century.
I believe Verenese would like her dog.
That's just the kind of thing Preti would take.
This dog is a really special one,
We are able to see every resource from its books, and it also provides
That's the kind of character that comes to meet us
I paint in various ways, and the only
Another gymnast doing that is Mary.
The Virgin. She also rose.
Beautiful, so we get a feeling
the dog is having a little difficulty with its
It was as if he were doing a lot
the ratchet pawl that would move forward
This is my handwriting.
I feel very sorry for someone trying to get themselves into trouble.
I.e.
That's the university, and it's getting this here.
actually, course, the reality of the pearl, the plate and its rim, the type of
two transbarynt, appearing in the manner
The guests depicted in the Venetian paintings were also raised by men.
There is, of course, an idea in this picture, that we have during
a description of the situation in which people find themselves.
In many paintings by Proti, from Verenese,
Your African course is at this level, this kind of level, then.
substantial evidence for the corpse,
He was in a difficult situation on the canvas, saying his condition.
A nesaf,
On the same thing, in this picture,
I'm dealing with the center of the activity.
It is the person who is focusing on the subject of this image.
Felly, there was a status to be said like a low,
together with the other workers here,
These people are in focus,
And the crystal was shining in the light of the activity.
This figure also provides an opportunity to demonstrate his knowledge.
the anatomy and how to
The back musculature here is particularly noticeable.
This figure is extremely rare.
substantial and moving through the image toward the center
becoming less and less noticeable,
These figures are
The center, which is painted in a very bright color, is available.
I believe that
and this painting clearly reflects the urgency of swift and decisive execution,
of the type of Baroque Neapolitan painting resources,
and I believe the other work is ours
a similar collection as if leading more
a way or the other, but here it is
The person who actually carries out these things.