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Painting in the Late Byzantine Empire
Emmanuel Tzanes, St. Mark the Evangelist
In this icon, St. Mark assumes a dynamic pose, including the dramatic head turn, which would become a common attribute in images of the inspired artist over the course of the next few centuries. Tzanes's stylized rendering of the lion can be explained by his never having seen one in nature or in visual culture. Seventeenth century.
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