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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Tinoretto, San Marco, Accademia, Venezia

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This wonderful painting, showing the body of Mark being taken from Alexandria in the 9th century by two Venetian merchants, who bore it in triumph to their native city where Marco was adopted as patron saint, is one of the first works in which Tintoretto freed himself from Tiziano's influence.

It was part of a series of huge canvases hung in the Scuola di San Marco, and which depict different episodes in the life of the Evangelist.

The highly symmetrical composition -- this effect was originally much more pronounced -- for a strip that haad deteriorated had to be cut off the left side -- the impression of depth, given by the perspective, and the dramatic storm lightning are all features that free it from the classical tradition.

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