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Saint Mark's Body Brought to Venice by Tintoretto, 1562–1566, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
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Saint Mark's Body Brought to Venice

1562–1566 · Tela (canvas) · Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia

For Saint Mark · 25 April

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image 18×22.4 in on a 18×24 in sheet

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About this painting

A camel waits at the right, harnessed, while the sky tears open above a square. Men carry a dead body across the stones, and all around them people run for the arcades or lie flat. Tintoretto painted the saving of Saint Mark's body between 1562 and 1566, and the Gallerie dell'Accademia reads the storm as the miracle itself: hail breaking over the persecutors so that the faithful could take the body from the pyre. The camel beside the woodpile marks the place as Alexandria. Yet the museum finds the deep perspective perhaps inspired by Piazza San Marco, its porticoes recalling Sansovino, and Letha Ch'ien reads the square as Venice's own, the body already carried toward the basilica that will hold it. The Accademia records that the original pyre was painted over with archways when the canvas was trimmed for the Biblioteca Marciana. The body keeps moving toward home.

Sources: Museum's own reading: hailstorm is the miracle that routs persecutors so the faithful can save Mark's body from the pyre · Frightened camel beside a woodpile marks the Alexandria setting of the episode · Howard Oakley, 'Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Tintoretto, 7,' The Eclectic Light Company, 21 Aug 2018 · Letha Catherine Ch'ien, 'Making Miracles at the Scuola Grande di San Marco', PhD dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.

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The Record
Date 1562–1566
Collection Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Subject Saints
Season Ordinary Time
Master 9,600 px
License Public domain
Attribution Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia · Catalogo 831

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Jacopo Robusti detto Jacopo Tintoretto - Venezia, 1519 - 1594
Date 1562-1566
Medium Tela (canvas)
Dimensions cm 397 x 315
Holding Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia · Catalogo 831

Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.

The file this print is made from

Source Jacopo Tintoretto - St Mark's Body Brought to Venice.jpg
Master 9,600 px on the long edge
Rights Public domain — the photograph as well as the painting
At a glance
ArtistTintoretto (Italian, 1518–1594)
Date1562–1566
MuseumGallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia
AccessionCatalogo 831
MediumTela (canvas)
Dimensionscm 397 x 315
Sheet sizes18×24 in, 24×36 in, 32×48 in, 40×60 in
Provenance of the file
Held byGallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia · Catalogo 831 the museum’s record
Source fileWikimedia Commons · Jacopo Tintoretto - St Mark's Body Brought to Venice.jpg
LicencePublic domain
Master7,720 × 9,600 px, the file our printer receives
ChainTaken from Wikimedia Commons; held as our print master.

The sheets

18×24 in sheet 18×24 in · image 18×22.4 in · archival margin · 429 dpi
24×36 in sheet 24×36 in · image 24×29.8 in · archival margin · 322 dpi
32×48 in sheet 32×48 in · image 32×39.8 in · archival margin · 241 dpi
40×60 in sheet 40×60 in · image 40×49.7 in · archival margin · 193 dpi

Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 9,600 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.