Carmagnola (Venice)

Carmagnola
Yearpossibly 6th-century AD
Mediumporphyry
Subjectpossibly Emperor Justinian I
LocationSt Mark's Basilica, Venice

Carmagnola or la Carmagnola is the traditional name of a porphyry head of a late Roman emperor, widely thought to represent Justinian, now placed on the external balustrade of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.