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The Square of Saint Mark's, Venice . Object type: painting. Genre: Veduta : Date: 1742/1744: Medium: oil on canvas ... National Gallery of Art artwork ID: 32588 ;
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 St 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.
The Square of Saint Mark's, Venice 1742–1744: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., United States Entrance to the Grand Canal from the Molo, Venice: 1742–1744: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., United States Entrance to the Grand Canal; Looking East: 1742–1744: Windsor Castle, England The Piazza San Marco, Venice: 1742–1746
Piazza San Marco (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpjattsa san ˈmarko]; Venetian: Piasa San Marco), often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza ("the Square").
It measures 3.5 m by 2.25 m and shows the Assumption of Mary, which is usually shown witnessed by the apostles; here it is instead seen by (from left to right) Saint Mark, John the Evangelist, Saint Luke, Francis of Assisi with the stigmata, Louis of Toulouse as a young bishop, Anthony the Great, Augustine of Hippo and John the Baptist.
He portrays Torcello and Malamocco carrying Mark's body as they arrived back in Venice. The Piazza San Marco, or St. Mark's Square is displayed in the painting with onlookers fleeing in the background. The public square appears narrow to convey the tenseness of the abduction of Saint Mark's body.
The Museo Correr (Italian pronunciation: [muˈzɛo korˈrɛr]) is a museum in Venice, northern Italy. Located in St. Mark's Square, Venice, it is one of the 11 civic museums run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia. The museum extends along the southside of the square on the upper floors of the Procuratorie Nuove.
The original library building is located in Saint Mark's Square, Venice's former governmental centre, with its long façade facing the Doge's Palace. Constructed between 1537 and 1588, it is considered the masterpiece of the architect Jacopo Sansovino and a key work in Venetian Renaissance architecture.