Finding of the Body of Saint 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

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Paintings	The Siege of Asola (1544–1545) Madonna and Child with Saints (1545–1546) Esther Before Ahasuerus (1546–1547) Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet (c. 1548) Visitation (Bologna) (c. 1550) Cain and Abel (c. 1550) Adam and Eve (c. 1550) Portrait of Procurator Jacopo Soranzo (c. 1550) Assumption of the Virgin (c. 1555) Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (c. 1555) Presentation of the Virgin (c. 1551–1556) Leda and the Swan (c. 1550–1560) Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan (1551–1554) Presentation at the Temple (1554–1556) Saint Mark series (1548 or 1562–1566) Miracle of the Slave Finding of the Body of Saint Mark Saint Mark's Body Brought to Venice Susanna and the Elders (1555–1556) Portrait of Queen Christina of Denmark (1555–1556) Saint George and the Dragon (1555 or 1558) The Deliverance of Arsinoe (c. 1560) Portrait of Alvise Cornaro (c. 1560–1565) Crucifixion (1565) Finding of the Body of Saint Mark (1562–1566) Saint Mark's Body Brought to Venice (1562–1566) Portrait of Doge Pietro Loredan (c. 1567–1570) Danaë (c. 1570) Christ at the Sea of Galilee (1570s) The Origin of the Milky Way (1575–1580) Bacchus, Venus and Ariadne (1576–1577) The Muses (1578) Baptism of Christ (c. 1580) The Vision of Saint Nicholas (c. 1582) Il Paradiso (1588) Self Portrait (1588) Visitation (Venice) (c. 1588) Last Supper (1592–1594)
Painting series	Fasti of the Gonzagas (1578–1580)
Related	Domenico Tintoretto (son) Marietta Robusti (daughter) Scuola Grande di San Rocco Judith and Holofernes (studio of Tintoretto) (c. 1577) (formerly attributed)