DE CORTE, Josse
(b. 1627, Ypres, d. 1679, Venezia)

St Mark

1670
Marble
Santa Maria della Salute, Venice

This statue is on the high altar in the church of Santa Maria della Salute.

At the beginning of the 1670s De Corte expressed his full maturity in the extraordinary complex of the high altar, and he dominated and guided Venetian sculpture through the decade. His statues on the altar were the most evocative and influential, even into the following century.




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