Finding of the body of St Mark

Finding of the body of St Mark

Artist	Tintoretto
Type	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	405 cm × 405 cm (159 in × 159 in)
Location	Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

The Finding of the body of St Mark or Rediscovery of the body of Saint Mark is a painting by Tintoretto. Dated to between 1562 and 1566, it is part of a cycle of paintings of the patron saint of Venice. It is now held in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.

Like its companion piece, St Mark's Body Brought to Venice, the composition exemplifies Tintoretto's preference for dramatic effects of perspective and light. According to the art historian Thomas Nichols, "the linear logic of the emptied, boxlike perspective vistas is undermined by an irrational play of light and shade. Both paintings suggest the simultaneous existence of different levels of reality through the use of a range of pictorial techniques."^[1]

Notes

↑ Nichols, Thomas. "Jacopo Tintoretto". Oxford Art Online. Retrieved July 23, 2012.

Sources

Gillo Dorfles, Stefania Buganza and Jacopo Stoppa, Arti visive. Dal Quattrocento all'Impressionismo, Atlas, 2001, page 262

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Paintings by Tintoretto for the former Scuola Grande di San Marco.

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The Siege of Asola (1544-1545) Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet (c. 1548) Saint Mark series (1548 or 1562-66) Miracle of the Slave Finding of the body of St Mark St Mark's Body Brought to Venice The Deliverance of Arsenoe (c. 1560) The Origin of the Milky Way (1575-1580) The Vision of Saint Nicholas (c. 1582) Self Portrait (1588) Last Supper (1590-1594)