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♦️Miracle of the Slave♦️⠀
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👨‍🎨By: Tintoretto⠀
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📚The painting portrays Saint Mark, patron saint of Venice, performing a posthumous miracle of saving a slave from torture. Drawn from hagiographic sources on the saint’s life, like Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend and Jacopo Sansovino’s bronze reliefs, Saint Mark appears at the top of the image after being summoned by the slave, destroying the tools used in his torture and stunning the crowd.⠀
Prior to the events shown in the picture, the slave wants to visit the tomb of the patron saint of Venice, but his master forbids his visit. The slave makes the pilgrimage against his master’s will, and devotes his body to St. Mark upon reaching the tomb. The painting shows the slave’s arrival back to his master’s residence, when his master punishes him. The master, seated at the throne on the right, calls for the slave’s eyes to be gouged out, legs to be broken, and mouth to be shattered.