Arminio Zuccato, after a cartoon by Tintoretto
Glory of the Saints
1570
Mosaic
Lando Chapel, Basilica of San Pietro, Venice
This image of Heaven gives unusual prominence to the Madonna and Child.
The four evangelists sit in the foreground with their books and their attributes: clockwise from the lower left are Mark with his lion, Matthew with a boy angel, John with an eagle, and Luke with an ox.
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Photographed at the basilica by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.