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Saint Mark was martyred and initially buried in the Baucalis section of Alexandria in Roman Egypt.Coptic theologian Abu al-Barakat Ibn Kabar wrote that "his martyrdom was at the end of Baramuda, Nisan 27, in the reign of Tiberius, and it is said that [his body] was still buried in the eastern church on the shore of Alexandria up to the time when it was taken by craft by some Franks (al-Farang ...
Venice (/ ˈ v ɛ n ɪ s / VEN-iss; Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛttsja] ⓘ; Venetian: Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.It is built on a group of 127 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 472 bridges. [3]
In 1288 the relics of Saint Anianus - the first successors of St. Mark as patriarch of Alexandria - were brought to the San Clemente church. In 1432 Pope Eugene IV moved the order of Lateran canons, also known as the Charity (Carità), to the island. Thanks to donations provided by wealthy Venetian families, the canons began work on the ...
The Architectural History of Venice. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09029-1. Gerhard Rösch (2002). "The Serrata of the Great Council and Venetian society, 1286-1323". In John Jeffries Martin; Dennis Romano (eds.). Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297–1797. Johns Hopkins University Press.
It remained the cathedral of Venice for a thousand years, until the City was occupied by Napoleon at the end of the eighteenth century. Doge Maurizio Galbaio appoints his sixteen-year-old nephew Christopher bishop of Olivolo , but when the Patriarch of Grado refuses to consecrate him a flotilla of ships is sent to attack Grado , and there the ...
The Military Organisation of a Renaissance State, Venice c. 1400 to 1617 (1984) (ISBN 0521032474) Martin, John Jeffries, and Dennis Romano (eds). Venice Reconsidered. The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797. (2002) Johns Hopkins UP. The most recent collection on essays, many by prominent scholars, on Venice.
The Republic of Venice, [a] officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenìssima, [b] was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice. Founded, according to tradition, in 697 by Paolo Lucio Anafesto , over the course of its 1,100 years of history it established itself as one of the ...
They are St. Peter the Apostle, St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Lucy and St. Jerome. [ 3 ] While the general ensemble is not different from previous works, such as the San Giobbe Altarpiece (which shares the apse with mosaics, for example), Bellini introduced some novelties, such as the side openings with landscape, inspired by Alvise Vivarini ...