Mosaic altarpieces

St. Victor martyr (1559) and Blessed Pietro Acotanto, father of the poor (1766) mosaics came to St. Mark's basilica during the nineteenth century from the Santa Maria Nova parish church.
The pair of devotional mosaic altarpieces are reassembled in St. Mark's museum after almost two centuries.

The altarpiece of St. Victor martyr of Santa Maria Nova, entrusted to St. Mark's basilica on 14 January 1886, is the more well-known because a congregation of priests was named after him
The mosaic shows the martyr Saint dressed up as a Roman soldier with armour and the martyr's palm in the right hand inside a classical architecture, while some kneeling priests worship him.
It is the work of the brothers Francesco and Valerio Zuccato, the most famous of the mosaicists working in the sixteenth century.
The altarpiece of St. Victor martyr was initially placed on the south wall of room of Treasure, affiancata by two green columns surmounted by two 14th century figures: the Virgin and the archangel Gabriel, once in the presbytery .

The altarpiece of the Blessed Pietro Acotanto, father of the poor, was already in the basilica by the 1840s.
The austere figure in patrician clothing, who distributes coins to the poor, unequivocally typifies the traditional image of Pietro Acotanto. It is the work of Pietro Monaco, the last noteworthy mosaicist who worked on restorations to the St. Mark's mosaics at the end of the eighteenth century.

Mosaic altarpiece
St. Victor martyr
Mosaicists: Francesco and Valerio Zuccato, 1559

Mosaic altarpiece
Blessed Pietro Acotanto, father of the poor
Mosaicist: Pietro Monaco, 1765-1766