This is a painting over one of the entrance doors of St Mark’s Basilica depicting the scene when two Venetian merchants smuggled the body of St Mark out of Alexandria, Egypt in 828 AD. They hid the body in a basket of pork and vegetables to evade Muslim customs officials. Looks like one of the Egyptian officials is looking in the basket and holding his nose. The relics were brought to Venice to serve as a patron saint for the city, a move that helped cement Venice’s growing power and prestige.