St Mark's Basilica

Who is recorded here

• Mark the Evangelist burial · AD 68

In art

• Death of Adonis — Sebastiano del Piombo (1512)
• A View of Venice — François de Nomé (1650)
• The Molo, Seen from the Bacino di San Marco — Canaletto (1720)
• The Piazza San Marco in Venice — Canaletto (1723)
• Piazza San Marco with the Basilica, Venice — Canaletto (1723)

About the place

The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark, commonly known as St Mark's Basilica, is the cathedral church of the Patriarchate of Venice; it became the episcopal seat of the Patriarch of Venice in 1807, replacing the earlier cathedral of San Pietro di Castello.

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