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Javier Alejano identified Ortiz, Manuel Lafarga identified Giorgione

Who was the unknown second viola player behind Veronese? ...
The musician Diego Ortiz, composer, theorist and maestro di cappella of the Naples Royal Chapel.



This (un)known person was not in the original design. Who was behind him and what instrument he played? ...
The painter Giorgio da Castelfranco, named Giorgione, holding his lute in a silent attitude.




The cornetto player was probably
Jacopo Bassano da Ponte  ...
Jacopo Bassano was not in the original design.

Who was behind him playing trombone? ...






Why Paolo Caliari appeared leaned and twisted in the x-ray images of the scene?




...          What kind of instrument was Paolo playing?

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Una misa fúnebre para Giorgione en “Las Bodas de Caná” (1563) del Veronés. Más allá del consort Original
Giorgio de Castelfranco, llamado Giorgione, era el personaje central a cuyo alrededor Paolo Caliari estructuró en origen la disposición del grupo instrumental de Las Bodas de Caná. Para ello se sirvió de un diseño basado en un consort vocal junto a Giorgione y su laúd, acompañado de sí mismo al clavicémbalo. La escena incluía también algunos laúdes “silenciosos” sobre su propio instrumento.
Tintoretto, i Grimani, and Alessandro Vittoria: Artists and patrons in Veronese ‘s Wedding at Cana
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.
Veronese and Diego Ortiz at San Giorgio: Profane Painters and Musicians and Sacred Places
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.
https://www.luigiboccherini.org/
Musical Renaissance - Greece and the Fenix - Music and machines: The Classical World heritage
Enlightened Renaissance - Leonardo 's Dream - Classical view on cosmos as a great mechanism
Veronese and Diego Ortiz at San Giorgio Maggiore. International Conference "Music Patronage in Italy from the 15th to the 18th Century"
Diego Ortiz in Venice - Il Veronese in concierto - Dr. Manuel Lafarga
The wedding at Cana: the forgotten history of a famous canvas
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.
On secular pleasures: The taste - Renaissance supper at Ferrara 's Court 1529
The Paolo Caliari 's Wedding at Cana musical ensemble Musica Reservata - The Venetian painter-musicians
Il Veronese and Giorgione in concerto: Diego Ortiz in Venice
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.
© M. Lafarga & P. Sanz
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mailto:mlafargam@musiclanguagefrontiers.com
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