Who commissioned this gargantuan painting and how did it come to hang in the Louvre? And what's more, what are Jesus and Mary doing amongst the socialites of 16th Century Venice?

Paolo Veronese set out to create a painting like no other at the time, a painting that would bring the biblical stories straight into the world of the 16th century. In this wedding we can see Jesus and Mary rubbing shoulders with artists such as Titian and Tintoretto, and even the artist himself.

Watch on to see the story of how this work came to be, and the unlikely way it found itself in the Louvre.

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