Images: Web Gallery of Art; Index of Medieval Art; color and black and white images in Demus (1988)
Clavis number: ECMA 153
Other descriptors: none
Location: the San Marco Basilica in Venice, Italy (north dome)
Category: mosaics
Related literature: Acts of John, Acts of John (Latin), Acts of John in Rome
Featured characters and locations: Artemis/Diana, Aristodemus, Drusiana, John (son of Zebedee), Stacteus.
1. DESCRIPTION
Material: paint on stone
Size: not provided
Date and Provenance: the San Marco Basilica in Venice, mosaics were started and funded by Doge Domenico Selvo in the early eleventh century and completed around the twelfth century.
Image: Index of Medieval Art
Description: John (named) standing orans in a frontal position.
Image: Index of Medieval Art
Description: John raising Drusianua (named) on litter with witnesses on right (source: Acts of John [Latin] 11; cf. Acts of John 80).
Image: Index of Medieval Art
Description: John raises Stacteus/Stachys (named) on litter; his mother kneels behind with arm outstretched to John; witnesses stand on right (source: Acts of John [Latin] 17).
Image: Index of Medieval Art
Description: John destroys temple of Artemis/Diana (named) with witnesses standing on right (source: Acts of John [Latin] 19; Acts of John 37–47).
Image: Index of Medieval Art
Description: John drinks poison cup; Aristodemus stands on right and two criminals drop dead in center (source: Acts of John [Latin] 20; cf. Acts of John in Rome 9–10).
Image: Index of Medieval Art
Description: John raises the two criminals back to life with Aristodemus and other witnesses standing on left (source: Acts of John [Latin] 20; cf. Acts of John in Rome 9–10).
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cartlidge, David R., and J. Keith Elliott. Art and the Christian Apocrypha. London and New York: Routledge, 2001 (pp. 180–81).
Demus, Otto. The Church of San Marco in Venice: History, Architecture, Sculpture. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1960.
__________. The Mosaic Decoration of San Marco Venice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988 (pp. 39–42, pls. 8 and 9a).
__________. The Mosaics of San Marco in Venice. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
4. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
“Basilica di San Marco.” Patriarcato di Venezia.
“St. Mark’s Basilica.” Wikipedia.
Entry created by Tony Burke, York University, 31 January 2024.