{"id":3239,"date":"2022-02-23T21:02:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T21:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilicasanmarco.it\/essential-chronology\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:32:59","slug":"essential-chronology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.basilicasanmarco.it\/en\/essential-chronology\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Chronology"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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829<\/div><\/div>
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Transport of the body of Saint Mark from Alexandria, Egypt to Venice (Doge Giustiniano Partecipazio)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
832<\/div><\/div>
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Consecration of the first church of San Marco (Doge Giovanni Partecipazio)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
976-978<\/div><\/div>
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The church was burned during the revolt against Doge Candiano IV and its reconstruction under Doge Orseolo I the Saint<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1063<\/div><\/div>
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Beginning of the reconstruction of the current church (Doge Domenico Contarini)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1071-1084<\/div><\/div>
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Beginning of the mosaic decoration (Doge Domenico Selvo)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1094<\/div><\/div>
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Consecration of the church (Doge Vitale Falier)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1204<\/div><\/div>
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Fourth Crusade and transport to the basilica of marbles and works of art brought to Venice following the conquest of Constantinople (four horses, icon of the Madonna Nicopeia, enamels from the Pala d'Oro, reliquaries, crosses, chalices, patens, today in the treasury: Doge Enrico Dandolo)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1265<\/div><\/div>
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Mosaic of Sant'Alipio with documentation of the exterior of the basilica<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1343-1354<\/div><\/div>
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Construction of the Baptistery and the Chapel of Sant'Isidoro (Doge Andrea Dandolo)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1394<\/div><\/div>
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Construction of the iconostasis and the sculptures that decorate it by Jacobello and Pier Paolo dalle Masegne<\/div><\/div><\/div>
Late 14th and early 15th centuries<\/div><\/div>
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Gothic decoration of the facade with cusps, aedicules, sculptures of angels and saints<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1419<\/div><\/div>
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Fire on the front of the basilica's roof<\/div><\/div><\/div>
First half of the fifteenth century<\/div><\/div>
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Intervention of Tuscan artists (Maestro Nicol\u00f2 and Pietro Lamberti and perhaps Jacopo della Quercia) in the sculptures of the facade: Florentine artists in the mosaics of the basilica (Paolo Uccello is documented in 1425<\/div><\/div><\/div>
Mid-fifteenth century<\/div><\/div>
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Mosaic ornament of the Mascoli Chapel<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1486<\/div><\/div>
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Construction of the Sacristy next to the apse (followed by the reconstruction of the small church of San Teodoro by Giorgio Spavento, proto of the basilica)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1496<\/div><\/div>
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Documentation of the exterior of the basilica in Gentile Bellini's painting: Procession of the relic in St. Mark's Square<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1504-1521<\/div><\/div>
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Construction of the Zen Chapel in the right arm of the atrium, a construction which blocked the solemn entrance portal towards the lagoon;<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1529<\/div><\/div>
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Sansovino's intervention to consolidate the walls and domes of the church<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1617<\/div><\/div>
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Arrangement of the altar of Nicopeia and the altar of the Blessed Sacrament (to the left and right of the main altar)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1797<\/div><\/div>
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Fall of the Republic<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1807<\/div><\/div>
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The Basilica becomes the seat of the Patriarch of Venice, until then at San Pietro a Castello<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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