How does Saint Mark's Body Brought to Venice elucidate its Composition?
The painting is notable for its striking, deep perspective background lines. The colours are darker in the near subjects, while the figures in the background are white, nearly transparent. The strange red sky is roiling with ominous gray clouds, riven with a thunderbolt, affording the painting a heavy, dynamic atmosphere. Tintoretto depicted himself within the work as the bearded man beside the camel. He portrays Torcello and Malamocco carrying Mark's body as they arrived back in Venice. The Piazza San Marco, or St. Mark's Square is displayed in the painting with onlookers fleeing in the background. The public square appears narrow to convey the tenseness of the abduction of Saint Mark's body.
Tintoretto Saint Mark Venice