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The iconography of military saints Theodore, George and Demetrius as horsemen is a direct continuation of the Roman-era "Thracian horseman" type iconography.The iconography of the dragon appears to grow out of the serpent entwining the "tree of life" on one hand, and with the draco standard used by late Roman cavalry on the other.
"St. George and the Dragon," or "An Excellent Ballad of St. George and the Dragon" is a 17th-century ballad that considers the account of England's patron saint, [1] St. George, and his famous defeat of a dragon. Printed on a broadside, "St. George and the Dragon" is a ballad with less of a narrative about the St. George and the Dragon episode ...
St. George and the Dragon is a small oil on wood cabinet painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, painted c. 1505, and now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The saint wears the blue garter of the English Order of the Garter , reflecting the award of this decoration in 1504 to Raphael's patron Guidobaldo da ...
The story of the defeat of the dragon is not part of Saint George's earliest hagiographies, and seems to have been a later addition. [ 7 ] [ 16 ] The earliest text which preserves fragments of George's narrative is in a Greek hagiography which is identified by Hippolyte Delehaye of the scholarly Bollandists to be a palimpsest of the 5th century ...
Saint George or Saint George and the Dragon is a small painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael, executed c. 1503–1505. It is housed in the Louvre in Paris. A later version of the same subject is the Saint George and the Dragon in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Vittore Carpaccio's Saint George and the Dragon was part of a painting cycle that was commissioned in 1502 by the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni.The Schiavoni (meaning "Slavs" in the Venetian dialect and referred specifically to the Dalmatians from the Dalmatia region of modern day Croatia) commissioned the Scuola deli Cycle during the time of the Ottoman wars in Europe. [1]
Detail showing the use of elk antlers on the dragon's head. The main group is 3.75 metres (12.3 ft) tall, [5] and stands on a wooden plinth that makes the total height c. 6 metres (20 ft). [2] The scale of the sculpture is larger-than-life. It depicts St. George on horseback, fighting with the dragon.
George - Red cross knight hired by the queen of Faeries to defeat the dragon. Queen of Faeries - Sends George to fight the dragon. Una - The Princess of the land who embarks on the mission with George. Hermit - Meets George on top of a hill and informs him that his name is George. Dragon - Monster who makes life hard for the people of the land ...