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The winged Lion of Saint Mark is a symbol of Venice. The symbol also represents the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria. Vittore Carpaccio painted the Lion of Saint Mark. Venetian masters Titian and Tintoretto both created paintings of Saint Mark. Titian's St. Mark Enthroned and Tintoretto's Finding of the Body of Saint Mark were symbols of Venice.
The painting portrays Saint Mark, patron saint of Venice, performing a posthumous miracle of saving a slave from torture. Drawn from hagiographic sources on the saint’s life, like Jacobus de Voragine 's Golden Legend and Jacopo Sansovino 's bronze reliefs, Saint Mark appears at the top of the image after being summoned by the slave ...
The work is a huge canvas (telero) destined for the Scuola Grande di San Marco in Venice.It is 26 m 2 in surface, and has rich narrative and iconographic features. The cycle of paintings with stories of the life of Saint Mark was completed around 60 years later by Giorgione and Tintoretto, and is today housed in the Pinacoteca di Brera and the Accademia in Venice.
Saint Mark spent most of his life in Alexandria, Egypt. [3] His body was brought to Venice eight centuries after his death in AD 68. Venice's ruling class wanted St. Mark as the patron saint for their economic status, so they arranged to smuggle his body from Egypt. [3]
The same scene was already sculpted by Jacopo Sansovino in the reliefs for the St. Mark's Basilica. The saint is represented alive, with his feet on the ground, unlike the other post-mortem scenes in which he appears in flight, according to the common iconographic conventions relating to the stories of the saints.
Donatello's Saint Mark (1411–1413) is a marble statue that stands approximately 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m) high and is displayed in the museum of the Orsanmichele church, Florence. It originally was displayed in an exterior niche of the church, where a copy now stands.
The Lion of Saint Mark, representing Mark the Evangelist, pictured in the form of a winged lion, is an aspect of the Tetramorph. On the pinnacle of St Mark's Cathedral he is depicted as holding a Bible , and surmounting a golden lion which is the symbol of the city of Venice and formerly of the Venetian Republic .
St. Mark is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1625.It was purchased by Russian philanthropist Alisher Usmanov from the art dealer Colnaghi, London in September 2013 for the Pushkin Museum and donated by him to that museum in November that year, where it still hangs.