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Saint Mark Preaching in Alexandria
1504–1507 · Oil on canvas · Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
For Saint Mark · 25 April
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Saint Mark stands on a low platform in red and blue, Christ's colours, and the city has come out to hear him. Behind him a domed church, as Nevine Rateb reads it, recalls Hagia Sophia and Venice's own San Marco, with a minaret evoking Cairo beside it: Alexandria wearing the face of the city that later took Mark's bones. The Scuola Grande di San Marco commissioned the canvas in 1504; Gentile Bellini died in 1507 with it unfinished, and his brother Giovanni completed it. Rateb reads a lone armed Ottoman among the Mamluk crowds as the rival. In 1517 the Mamluks were gone. Mark goes on preaching.
Sources: the red and blue robes echoing Christ's colour coding, making Mark's authority an extension of Christ's mission · Nevine Rateb, Mamluk Studies Review 26 (2023) · inv. 160, oil on canvas, 347 x 770 cm; commissioned by the Scuola Grande di San Marco for its albergo, begun July 1504 · Brera object record and Rateb 2023; the sketchbook condition is reported in the Bellini literature and is not a document this store has read