“The Wedding at Cana” returns to Venice

Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2007-10-18 07:29
In 1797, Napoleon's army confiscated the masterpiece the “Wedding at Cana” from the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice and took it back to France. Now the painting has returned home - sort of...

A meticulous - but controversial - digital reproduction of the 16th century painting has been re-installed at the church but some find it “devastating and ‘immoral’ if it claims to substitute the original, just like cloning human life.”

The original painting hangs in the Louvre.