The Marriage at Cana

The Master of Belorado worked predominantly in the style of the Master of the Catholic Kings, identified as Diego de la Cruz, the leading painter in Castile during the early years of the sixteenth century. As with many Burgos retables (from which the present work would originally have come) the names of the most important figures, excepting Christ, have been inscribed within their haloes. The naturalistic background of the scene, with its arcade and servants pouring water into a line of large terracotta pots, is reminiscent of Juan de Flandes’s version of the same scene in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, painted for Isabella of Castile circa 1500-1504.