SANSOVINO, Jacopo
(b. 1486, Firenze, d. 1570, Venezia)

Sacristy Door

1550s
Bronze
Basilica di San Marco, Venice

The door of the Sacristy in the Basilica of San Marco was executed by Jacopo Sansovino. It has bronze panels depicting the Resurrection of Christ and the Deposition, surrounded by a frame decorated with figures of the Evangelists and Prophets and portraits (among them Titian, Veronese, Sansovino).