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A legend about Saint Mark tells how the servant of a knight of Provence disobeyed his master’s command that he was not to venerate the relics of Saint Mark, and was ordered to be stretched on the rack and have his legs broken. He lies naked on the ground surrounded by his torturers and a crowd of onlookers. Saint Mark, clutching his Gospel, swoops headfirst into the scene from above and miraculously causes the torturers' hammers and axes to break against the servant’s body. This picture is a much smaller copy of Jacopo Tintoretto’s The Miracle of Saint Mark, painted for the Scuola Grande di San Marco (Confraternity of Saint Mark) in Venice in 1547/8. Analysis of the pigments shows that it cannot have been painted earlier than the eighteenth century, and was probably painted later.
Title
The Miracle of Saint Mark
Date
probably 19th century
Medium
Oil on paper stuck down on canvas
Measurements
H 42 x W 60.2 cm
Accession number
NG2900
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Lady Lindsay, 1913
Work type
Painting
