Saint George and the Dragon
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The episode of Saint George and the Dragon appended to the hagiography of Saint George was Eastern in origin, brought back with the Crusaders and retold with the courtly appurtenances belonging to the genre of Romance. The earliest known depiction of the motif is from early eleventh-century Cappadocia; the earliest known surviving narrative is an eleventh-century Georgian text.
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Treatment by artists
- Paintings
- Paolo Uccello, Saint George and the Dragon, National Gallery, London
- Raphael (Raffaello Santi), St. George Fighting the Dragon, 1504. Oil on panel. Louvre, Paris, France
- Edward Burne-Jones, St. George and the Dragon, 1866.
- Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), St. George and the Dragon, 1555.
- Gustave Moreau, St. George and the Dragon, c. 1870. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery, London.
- Giovanni Bellini, Saint George Fighting the Dragon, c. 1471. Pesaro alterpiece.
- Peter Paul Rubens. Saint George and the Dragon, 1620
- Sculptures
- Bernt Notke, wood, Storkyrkan in Stockholm, c. 1484–1489.
- Other
- Edward Elgar, The Banner of St George: a ballad for chorus and orchestra, words by Shapcott Wensley, 1879
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