The panels of Saint Luke and Saint Mark were part of a commission from Pope Pius V in 1569 to decorate the newly built Torre Pio (Pius Tower) in the Vatican. The project for which Italian Renaissance master Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was knighted by the Pope was completed in two years.

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A tetramorph symbolically combines four differing elements into one. Egypt’s sphinx is a well known example, but here is Venice’s Leone Di S. Marco as another. #Lion #SaintMark #Venice #

The Lion of St Mark, White Tower, Tower of London. #saintmark #lion #TowerOfLondon