Mark the Evangelist

==In art==
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Mark the Evangelist is most often depicted writing or holding his gospel.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/christianiconog00millgoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/christianiconog00millgoog/page/n369 356]|quote=St. Mark iconography.|title=Christian Iconography: The Trinity. Angels. Devils. Death. The soul. The Christian scheme. Appendices|first=Adolphe Napoléon|last=Didron|date=February 20, 1886|publisher=G. Bell|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> In Christian tradition, Mark the Evangelist is symbolized by a winged lion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.christianiconography.info/mark.html|title=St. Mark in Art|website=www.christianiconography.info}}</ref>

Mark the Evangelist attributes are the lion in the [[desert]]; he can be depicted as a [[bishop]] on a throne decorated with lions; as a man helping [[Venice|Venetian]] sailors. He is often depicted holding a book with ''pax tibi Marce'' written on it or holding a palm and book. Other depictions of Mark show him as a man with a book or scroll, accompanied by a winged lion. The lion might also be associated with Jesus' [[Resurrection of Jesus|Resurrection]] because lions were believed to sleep with open eyes, thus a comparison with Christ in his tomb, and Christ as king.

Mark the Evangelist can be depicted as a man with a halter around his neck and as rescuing Christian slaves from [[Saracens]].

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File:Accademia - St Mark's Body Brought to Venice by Jacopo Tintoretto.jpg|Venetian merchants with the help of two Greek monks take Mark the Evangelist's body to [[Venice]], by [[Tintoretto]]
File:Codexaureus 21.jpg|Mark the Evangelist listening to the [[winged lion]], Mark; image 21 of the [[Codex Aureus of Lorsch]] or Lorsch Gospels
File:Vangeli di ebbone (evangelista marco), epernay, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 1 f 18 v., 20,8x26 cm, ante 823.jpg|Mark the Evangelist looking at the lion, c. 823
File:Folio 19v - The Martyrdom of Saint Mark.jpg|The [[martyrdom]] of Saint Mark. ''[[Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry]]'' ([[Musée Condé]], [[Chantilly, Oise|Chantilly]]), c. 1412 and 1416.
File:Andrea Mantegna 087.jpg|''[[St Mark (Mantegna)|St Mark]]'' by [[Andrea Mantegna]], 1448
File:Evangelist-with-lion.jpg|Mark the Evangelist with the <!-- smiling --> lion, 1524
File:Bodleian Library MS. Arm. d.13. Armenian Gospels-0041-0.jpg|A painted miniature in an Armenian Gospel manuscript from 1609, held by the [[Bodleian Library]]
File:Åhus kyrka-15.jpg|Saint Mark on a 17th-century [[naive painting]] by unknown artist in the choir of St Mary church (Sankta Maria kyrka) in [[Åhus]], Sweden
File:Pasquale Ottino San Marcos escribe sus Evangelios al dictado de San Pedro Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux.jpg|''St. Mark writes his Evangelium at the dictation of St. Peter'', by [[Pasquale Ottino]], 17th century, Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux
File:Il Pordenone - San Marco - Budapest.jpg|Mark the Evangelist by [[Il Pordenone]] (c. 1484–1539)
File:GRM Inv. J-3179.jpg|Saint Mark the Evangelist Icon from the royal gates of the central iconostasis of the [[Kazan Cathedral, St. Petersburg|Kazan Cathedral]] in Saint Petersburg, 1804
File:Tzanes Emmanuel - St Mark the Evangelist - Google Art Project.jpg|An [[icon]] of [[Saint Mark (Tzanes)|Saint Mark the Evangelist]], 1657
File:San Marco cathedral in Venice.JPG|[[Saint Mark's Basilica]]
File:Nuremberg chronicles f 104r 1.png|St Mark in the ''[[Nuremberg Chronicle]]''
File:Stmark.jpg|''[[Saint Mark (Donatello)|Saint Mark]]'', 1411–1413, by [[Donatello]] ([[Orsanmichele]], [[Florence]])
File:StMarkcoptic.jpg|[[Coptic iconography|Coptic icon]] of Saint Mark the Evangelist
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