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The Arrest of St Mark   Giovanni Mansueti (documented 1485–1527)

The Arrest of St Mark

Giovanni Mansueti (documented 1485–1527)

1499

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Die Gefangennahme des heiligen Markus

Giovanni Mansueti was one of the many gifted artists active in Venice in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century who were overwhelmingly influenced by the art of Giovanni Bellini. At the same time, Mansueti had a highly distinctive and instantly recognizable style of his own, though by the time of his death the rise of such artists as Giorgione and Titian meant it had become almost stubbornly old-fashioned.
The present large panel is one of the finest works he ever executed. It is prominently signed on one piece of paper, and less obviously dated 1499 on another, amidst a list of names of the officers of the commissioning body. In Venetian painting of the period, it belongs to a very particular genre that involved the colourful and exotic presentation of religious subjects in narrative cycles. Such works were commissioned by what were called Scuole (literally ‘schools’, actually trade guilds and religious or national brotherhoods), and most such pictures adorned their meeting rooms and offices, which may explain their secularizing tendencies. As it happens, this depiction of the arrest of St Mark the evangelist and patron saint of Venice is known to have been one of a series of four paintings – two of the three others were by Cima da Conegliano (in Berlin) and Lattanzio da Rimini (lost) – which flanked an Annunciation by Cima da Conegliano (Hermitage, St Petersburg) in the chapel of the Guild of the Silk-Weavers in the Venetian church of the Crociferi (now the Gesuiti, reconstructed by the Jesuits following the suppression of the Crociferi in 1656). The painting’s brilliant and richly hued display of exotic bearded orientals combines with the boldly diagonal architectural depth to make for a delightfully energetic effect. The prominent leopard isolated from the general ‘mêlée’ in the otherwise deliberately empty foreground is a typical Mansueti touch.

Material/technique
tempera with oil glazes on panel, cradled
Measurements
164 × 146 cm, weight: c. 130.0 kg incl. frame and glazing
Acquisition
acquired in 1890 by Prince Johann II von Liechtenstein
Currently exhibited
Garden Palace, permanent presentation
Artists/makers/authors
Giovanni Mansueti
Detailed information
Inventory number
GE 857
Signature/inscriptions content only available in German
auf einem Cartellino bez.: IOANES DEMA / N SVETIS / .P.
Provenance
acquired in 1890 by Prince Johann II von Liechtenstein
Iconography
The Capture of Mark
Literature
Karl Höss, Fürst Johann II. von Liechtenstein und die bildende Kunst, Wien 1908, S. 39-40

Th. von Frimmel, Blätter für Gemäldekunde 6 1910, S. 134f.

A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte italiana, Bd. VII, 4, Bd. Bd. VII, Mailand 1915, S. 560

Adolf Kronfeld, Führer durch die Fürstlich Liechtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie in Wien, 3. Aufl., Wien 1931, S. 169, Kat. 857

B. Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, S. 326

R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, Bd. 17, Bd. Bd. 17, Den Haag 1935, S. 189ff., Abb. 108

Erich V. Strohmer, Die Gemäldegalerie des Fürsten Liechtenstein in Wien, Wien–Leipzig 1943, S. 90, Abb. 4

S. Moschini Marconi, Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia, Bd. I, Bd. Bd. I., Rom 1955, S. 138

B. Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance, Venetian School, Bd. I, Bd. Bd. I, London 1957, S. 108, Abb. 369

F. Heinemann, Spätwerke des Giovanni Mansueti, in: Arte Veneta XIX 1965, S. 150f.

Reinhold Baumstark, Meisterwerke der Sammlungen des Fürsten von Liechtenstein. Gemälde, Zürich–München 1980, S. 46–47, Kat.-Nr. 3, Tafel 3

Julian Raby, Venice, Dürer and the Oriental Mode, in: The Hans Huth Memorial Studies, 1, Totowa, New Yersey 1982, S. 35-41 u. 62

Patricia Fortini Brown, Venetian Narrative Painting in the Age of Carpaccio, New Haven-London 1988, S. 200

Ausst.-Kat. Venice et l'Orient. 828-1797, Stefano Carboni (Hg.), erschienen Paris 2006, S. 126 u. 304-305, Abb. S. 127, Kat. 27

Trinita Kennedy, Ausst.-Kat. Venice and the Islamic World 828-1797, New York 2007, S. 304-305, Abb. S. 127, Kat. 27

Catharina Schmidt Arcangeli, Ausst.-Kat. Venice and the Islamic World 828-1797, New York 2007, S. 126, Abb. S. 127, Kat. 27

Johann Kräftner, Das Badminton Cabinet, Wien 2007, S. 11, Abb. 11

Johann Kräftner, Die Schätze der Liechtenstein. Paläste, Gemälde, Skulpturen, Wien 2013, Abb. S. 203

Johann Kräftner, The Treasures of the Liechtensteins. Palaces, Paintings, Sculptures, Vienna 2013
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