of St Mark's Cathedral he is depicted as holding a Bible, and surmounting a golden lion which is the symbol of the city of Venice and formerly of the Venetian...
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The Lion of St. Mark (Italian: Il Leone di San Marco) is a 1963 Italian adventure film co-written and directed by Luigi Capuano. Venice, about 1620. The...
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of Venice as the heraldic symbol of St. Mark the Evangelist, the patron saint of the Republic. The Lion of Venice is an ancient bronze sculpture of a...
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The Lion of St. Mark is an award given each year at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for a lifetime of services to creativity in...
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BC. The figure, which stands on the eastern column, at some point came to represent the Lion of Saint Mark, traditional symbol of Saint Mark the evangelist...
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St Mark's Campanile (Italian: Campanile di San Marco, Venetian: Canpanièl de San Marco) is the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy. The...
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Republic of Venice, until its dissolution in 1797. Its main charge was the Lion of Saint Mark, symbolizing Mark the Evangelist, the patron saint of Venice...
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Piazza San Marco (redirect from St. Mark's Square (Venice))
English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza ("the Square"). The Piazzetta...
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winged lion. According to William Lane (1974), an "unbroken tradition" identifies Mark the Evangelist with John Mark, and John Mark as the cousin of Barnabas...
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one of the founders (the lion of St Mark appears in his coat of arms in a manuscript of 1459). The earliest certain attestation dates to 1474. The group...
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Tetramorph (category Book of Ezekiel)
Jerome, St Gregory, and the Book of Kells, is that the man is Matthew, the lion Mark, the ox Luke, and the eagle John. The creatures of the tetramorph...
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Mary Wells Lawrence (section Women on the Web)
on the New York Stock Exchange. Wells Lawrence was awarded the Lion of St. Mark for her lifetime achievements at the 2020 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity...
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Flight over Vienna (category Aerial operations and battles of World War I)
his team, the 87ma squadriglia (squadron) called La Serenissima (Venice) all bearing the Lion of St Mark painted on their fuselage sides as the squadron's...
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total of five Grands Prix awards, the most ever awarded to a single piece of work. The Lion of St. Mark is an honor given each year at the Cannes Lions International...
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Salò (category Municipalities of the Province of Brescia)
following three centuries: in the main square a column with the Lion of St Mark, symbol of Venice, can be found still today. Over the years, Venice gave large...
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Othello Castle (category Buildings and structures completed in the 14th century)
relief of the Lion of St Mark was engraved above the castle's main entrance. The name of Captain Nicolo Foscari, who directed the alterations to the castle...
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the theories of the St. Pantaleone and the lion of St. Mark[clarification needed] are common, they are both now considered unlikely origins, and the true...
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The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Africa and India. It has a muscular, broad-chested body; a short, rounded head;...
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this has not stopped authors from conjecture. The presence of the Lion of St. Mark in Talhoffer's 1459 coat of arms (right) has given rise to speculation...
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Feodor Chaliapin Jr. (category White Russian emigrants to the United States)
Maestro di ballo The Executioner of Venice (1963) – Doge Giovanni Bembo The Lion of St. Mark (1963) – The Doge Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (1965)...
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Italian Navy (redirect from History of the Italian Navy)
winged lion (the lion of St. Mark) wielding a sword (Republic of Venice) 2nd quarter: on white field, red cross, the Saint George's Cross (Republic of Genoa)...
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Rik Battaglia (category People from the Province of Rovigo)
(1959, Mario Costa), The Conqueror of the Orient (1960, Tanio Boccia), The Lion of St. Mark (1963, Luigi Capuano) and Sandokan the Great (1963, Umberto...
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Julian Heru John St. Brown (born October 24, 1999) is a German-American professional football wide receiver for the Detroit Lions of the National Football...
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Fondaco del Megio (category Buildings and structures completed in the 13th century)
with the Lion of St. Mark (a modern reconstruction of the original, which was placed on every public building of the Republic). Lion of St. Mark Brusegan...
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USS Briscoe (DD-977) (category Cold War destroyers of the United States)
immediately above the Lion of St. Mark, suggest flowing water passing warships and small land areas. This is reminiscent of the Northern Solomon Islands...
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cinema. The prize was introduced in 1949 as the Golden Lion of Saint Mark (which was one of the best known symbols of the ancient Republic of Venice)...
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Thomas Quinn (author) (category Writers of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages)
The Count of Monte Cristo. The first book in the trilogy, The Lion of St. Mark, took him four years to write and publish. It begins in 1452 with the attempt...
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Ca' Foscari (category Houses completed in the 15th century)
winged lion emblem of the Republic of Venice; the domes of the St Mark's Basilica; the allegory of Technique (the woman leaning against a wheel); the allegory...
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The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical coming-of-age drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Buena Vista Pictures...
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The Gospel of Mark is the second of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic Gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from his baptism...
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