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LUST.
The connection
LUST. — song, scripture, image
Artist’s note forthcoming.
The source artwork
The Wedding at Cana
- Artist
- Paolo Veronese
- Date
- 1562–1563
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 6.77 × 9.94 m (complete painting)
- Collection
- Musée du Louvre, Paris
Veronese painted this expansive banquet for the refectory of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. The biblical wedding unfolds among musicians, guests and monumental architecture.
Artwork record · Louvre collection record (opens in a new tab)The artist
Paolo Veronese
1528–1588
Born in Verona, Paolo Caliari became known as Veronese and settled in Venice in the early 1550s. He painted for religious and secular patrons, often on a monumental scale. Large feasts, elaborate architecture and balanced arrangements of figures were recurring features of his work.
Artist background · National Gallery, London (opens in a new tab)2 Samuel 11
David and Bathsheba
11In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king's men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.
2One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite." 4Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 5The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, "I am pregnant."
6So David sent this word to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent him to David. 7When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. 8Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. 9But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master's servants and did not go down to his house.
10David was told, "Uriah did not go home." So he asked Uriah, "Haven't you just come from a military campaign? Why didn't you go home?"
11Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my commander Joab and my lord's men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!"
12Then David said to him, "Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13At David's invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master's servants; he did not go home.
14In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15In it he wrote, "Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die."
