1636 (ca.), Bernardo Strozzi, The Parable of the Wedding Banquet (fragment) -- Gallerie dell'Accademia (Venice)
From the museum label: This is the largest fragment of a far larger canvas, much damaged in the past and divided in the late nineteenth century to be sold in pieces. The entire composition, documented by two extant preparatory sketches (Florence, Uffizi; Genoa, Accademia Ligustica), presents the most significant moment of the parable: punishment being meted out by the king on a guest who arrived at the banquet without his wedding garments, an allusion to those who will not be deemed worthy to enter the Kingdom of Heaven on the Day of Judgement.
1636 (ca.), Bernardo Strozzi, The Parable of the Wedding Banquet (fragment) -- Gallerie dell'Accademia (Venice)
From the museum label: This is the largest fragment of a far larger canvas, much damaged in the past and divided in the late nineteenth century to be sold in pieces. The entire composition, documented by two extant preparatory sketches (Florence, Uffizi; Genoa, Accademia Ligustica), presents the most significant moment of the parable: punishment being meted out by the king on a guest who arrived at the banquet without his wedding garments, an allusion to those who will not be deemed worthy to enter the Kingdom of Heaven on the Day of Judgement.