Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs
The Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs is a porphyry sculpture group of four Roman emperors dating from around 300 AD. The sculptural group has been fixed to a corner of the façade of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy since the Middle Ages.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Ruin
- Description: porphyry sculpture group of four Roman emperors outside the St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy
- Also known as: “Statues of the Tetrarchs”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Doge’s Palace and Piazza San Marco.
Doge’s Palace
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The Doge's Palace is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main landmarks of the city of Venice in northern Italy. The palace included government offices, a jail, and the residence of the Doge of Venice, the elected authority of the former Republic of Venice.
Piazza San Marco
Square
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Piazza San Marco, often known in English as St Mark's Square, is the principal public square of Venice, Italy, where it is generally known just as la Piazza.
St Mark’s Basilica
Church
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The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark, commonly known as St Mark's Basilica, is the cathedral church of the Patriarchate of Venice; it became the episcopal seat of the Patriarch of Venice in 1807, replacing the earlier cathedral of San Pietro di Castello.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Marco and Castello.
San Marco
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San Marco is the central district of Venice. It is home to many of Venice's major points of interest, and consequently can be extremely crowded with tourists, especially during the day when cruise ships unload their passengers.
Castello
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Castello is one of six sestieri that make up Venice.
San Polo
San Polo is one of six sestieri that make up Venice. Covering 86 acres along the Grand Canal, it is one of the oldest parts of the city, having been settled before the 9th century.
Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs
- Categories: sculpture, group of sculptures, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Venice, Metropolitan Venice, Veneto, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Чатыры тэтрарха”
- Belarusian: “Чатыры тэтрархі”
- Catalan: “Retrat dels quatre tetrarques”
- Chinese: “四君主雕像”
- Chinese: “四帝像”
- Croatian: “Četiri tetrarha”
- Dutch: “Monument van de tetrarchen”
- Esperanto: “Portreto de la Kvar Tetrarkoj”
- French: “statue des quatre tétrarques”
- French: “Statue des quatre tétrarques”
- German: “Venezianische Tetrarchengruppe”
- Greek: “γλυπτό των τεσσάρων τετραρχών”
- Greek: “Σύμπλεγμα της τετραρχίας”
- Indonesian: “Patung empat tetrarka”
- Italian: “Gruppo dei tetrarchi”
- Italian: “Monumento ai Tetrarchi”
- Italian: “Monumento dei Tetrarchi”
- Italian: “Ritratto dei Tetrarchi”
- Italian: “Statua dei Tetrarchi”
- Italian: “Statue dei tetrarchi”
- Japanese: “テトラルキア像”
- Latin: “Statua quattuor tetrarcharum (Venetiis)”
- Latin: “Statua quattuor tetrarcharum”
- Polish: “Grupa tetrarchów”
- Portuguese: “Os Tetrarcas”
- Romanian: “Monumentul tetrarhilor”
- Russian: “Порфировые тетрархи”
- Russian: “Четыре тетрарха”
- Serbian: “Carigradski tetrarsi”
- Serbian: “Статуе тетрарха”
- Serbian: “Цариградски тетрарси”
- Serbian: “Цариграјски тетрархи”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Carigradski tetrarsi”
- Slovenian: “Portret štirih tetrarhov”
- Spanish: “Retrato de los cuatro tetrarcas”
- Turkish: “Dört Tetrark Portresi”
- Ukrainian: “Чотири тетрархи”
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