Cleveland Museum of Art
St. George and the Dragon
Francesco SalviatiLinkedCulture matchlcp-732ec289148b
- Date
- c. 1530s
- Medium
- black chalk with red chalk, stumped
- Culture
- Italy, 16th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 156841
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
According to a legend based on Greek myth, as Saint George passed through Libya, he rescued a king’s daughter who had been left as a sacrifice to placate a vicious dragon. In gratitude for being delivered from the monster’s tyranny, the king’s subjects converted to Christianity. Here George wears armor in the ancient style based on Roman sculpture. Classical armor in Renaissance art was reserved for elite male subjects as a sign of their virtue. As a military saint, George’s attire conveys his antiquity as an early Christian hero (died about AD 303), conferring on him a sense of Roman authority and gravity.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (1697-1759), Holkam Hall, Norfolk, England; by descent within the Coke family; [their sale, Christie's, London, 2 July 1991, p. 25, lot 6]; [Artemis Fine Arts, Ltd., London (David Carritt, Ltd., London)]
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