Scenes from the Life of St Mark by Giovanni Mansueti
Episodi della vita di San Marco, or Scenes from the Life of St Mark, 1525-26, Renaissance painting by Giovanni Mansueti, 1465-1527, in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy. The scene is set in a square in Alexandria, with Venetian inspired architecture and crowds of European and Mamluk men. On the right, the sultan commands the arrest of St Mark, he is arrested in a church in the rear centre, and on the left, St Mark is visited in prison by Christ and an angel. This was 1 of 3 paintings completed by Mansueti for the Scuola Grande di San Marco. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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