Tag: St Mark

12 Works, Today, April 25th, is St. Mark’s day, With Footnotes – #115

Apr 25, 2020

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St. Mark was an African native who belonged to the Levites’ tribe. His family moved to Jerusalem with their child John Mark. Apparently, he was given a good education and became conversant in both Greek and Latin in addition to Hebrew. His family was highly religious and in close relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.…
Tintoretto, Recovery of the corpse of St. Mark 02 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 119

Apr 13, 2019

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Tommaso Rangone, “grand guardian” of the Scuola di San Marco in Venice, commissioned Tintoretto in 1562 to paint a cycle depicting episodes associated with the saint, which the artist had completed by 1566. The cycle of large canvases, one of which is the Pinacoteca’s Finding of the Body of Saint Mark, recounted not only the…