- Title:
- The Miracle of Saint Mark
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Italian
- Brief description:
- 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. It is likely to be the work of a talented amateur painter, possibly its first recorded owner, Blanche Lindsay (1844--1912), who bequeathed it to the National Gallery in her will.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1912-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1912
- Date - latest:
- 1912
- Acquisition source:
- Lady Caroline Blanche Elizabeth Fitzroy, Lady Lindsay
- Associated concept:
- religious imagery
- Associated concept:
- St Mark
- Credit line:
- Bequeathed by Lady Lindsay, 1912
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 2/522/526/350/mid_N-2900-00-000016.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 42.00
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 60.20
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil on paper, mounted on canvas
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- paper
- Material:
- canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; Italian (Venetian)
- Object production date:
- probably 19th century
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1800
- Date - latest:
- 1899
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1800-24
- Date - period:
- 1825-49
- Date - period:
- 1850-74
- Date - period:
- 1875-99
- Object production person:
- Jacopo Tintoretto
- Person's birth date:
- 1518
- Person's death date:
- 1594
- Object production place:
- Italy
- Object production place:
- Venice
- Other number:
- NG2900
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0GAO-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG2900
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04RV-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng32900
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Lady Caroline Blanche Elizabeth Fitzroy, Lady Lindsay
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- high Renaissance
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth Century Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 263-4
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth Century Venetian School
- Reference details:
- 93
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 666
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings
- Reference details:
- 2.56-61
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Delaroche and Gautier: Gautier's Views on the 'Execution of Lady Jane Grey' and on other Compositions by Delaroche
- Reference details:
- 263-4
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery: Abridged Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the British and Foreign Pictures
- Reference details:
- 304
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Tancredi e Clorinda, il "disgiunto tragico"
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Turner, Lawrence, Canova and Venetian Art: Three Previously Unpublished Letters
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Tintoretto's Paintings in the National Gallery: Part III
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Turner and Venice
- Reference details:
- 60
- Reference note:
- Select Bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
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