The work was commissioned by the monks of Santi Nazaro e Celso in Verona for their refectory It was one of a series of monumental "Feasts" for monastery refectories of monasteries in Venice - "The Wedding at Cana" for San Giorgio Maggiore (now in the Louvre) and another "The Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee" (now in Milan) were other works in the series