MOSAIC ARTIST, Italian
(early 13th century in Venice)

Barrel vault (detail)

c. 1200
Mosaic
Basilica di San Marco, Venice

The Arch of Passion in St Mark's is decorated by early 13th-century mosaics illustrating, with typical Romanesque expressiveness, episodes from the Passion of Christ. One of the scenes is the Crucifixion.




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