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 MARK, ST., CURING ANIANUS, Cima da Conegliano, Berlin Museum; wood, H. 5 ft. 6 in. × 4 ft. 4 in. Long in the Gesuiti, Venice.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 245.

By Giovanni Mansueti, Venice Academy; canvas, H. 12 ft. × 13 ft. 1 in.; signed. Anianus, the cobbler, seated with a shoe strapped to his knee, shows his hand wounded by an awl; St. Mark, in the presence of the people, who fill the market-place of Alexandria, cures him with a blessing. Painted about 1500 for Scuola di S. Marco, Venice.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 221; Burckhardt, 599.

MARK AND MARCELLINUS, STS., MARTYRDOM OF, Paolo Veronese, S. Sebastiano, Venice. The Saints are exhorted by St. Sebastian to meet martyrdom with firmness. One of the master's finest works.—Zanotto, 428.

MARK, ST., MIRACLE OF, Tintoretto, Venice Academy; canvas. St. Mark, who is represented flying downwards, frustrates, by his power over physical laws, the attempts of the Turks to torture a Christian slave for acts of devotion to him; in the centre a standing figure exhibits to the overseer the broken tools. Painted about 1548; one of four pictures for Scuola di S. Marco; carried to Paris in 1799; returned in 1815. Popularly considered Tintoretto's masterpiece. Taine thinks it unsurpassed, and Ch. Blanc regards it as equal in colouring to any other work in Venice; but Ruskin says it is excelled in some respects by the Death of Abel, and the Fall of Man, near it.—Vasari, ed. Mil., vi. 592; Rosini, v. 254; Ridolfi, Marav., ii. 186; Zanotto, 505; Burckhardt, 744; Lavice, 462; Landon, Musée, ix. Pl. 13.

Ring of St. Mark, Paris Bordone, Venice Academy.

MARK, ST., RING OF, Paris Bordone, Venice Academy. The fisherman presenting to the Doge, who is seated on a dais, in an illustrious assembly, the ring which was given to him by St. Mark. Burckhardt calls this the "most beautifully painted ceremonial picture which exists." Carried to Paris in 1806; returned to Venice in 1815.—Landon, Musée, 2d Col., iii. 1; Burckhardt, 199; Murray, Hand-Book, N. Italy, 386.

MARK, ST., SERMON OF, Gentile Bellini, Brera, Milan; canvas, figures one-third life-size. St. Mark, on a platform in front of a mosque, preaching; Venetians and Orientals of all ages and both sexes before him, listening. Begun by Gentile in 1507 for Scuola di S. Marco; finished after his death, probably by Giovanni Bellini.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 135; Ridolfi, Maraviglie, i. 80; Lavice, 134.