St. George, born
in Cappadocia to a Christian family, entered the Roman army. Once he was
traveling through a city terrorized by a dragon, which had devoured all
the cattle and now was eating people. George arrived at the moment when
the dragon was about to swallow the king's daughter, princess Sabra. With
the help of Christ George overcame the dragon and, according to one version,
killed him, according to another, tamed and put on leash. Later George
fell the victim of Diocletian's persecutions and was martyred: after surviving
being burnt, boiled and crushed under a wheel, he was beheaded. His cult
was born in the east and remains particularly strong in Greece and Russia.
Thanks to crusaders his cult spread in the west, where St. George became
one of the patron saints of Genoa, Venice and Barcelona, as well as that
of England and of Teutonic Order. St. George was also the patron of all
Christian knights.
See: Albrecht Altdorfer St.
George.
Hans Baldung The
Three Kings Altarpiece.
Giovanni Bellini. Pesaro
Altarpiece. Predella: St. George Fights the Dragon.
Sir Edward Burne-Jones St.
George and the Dragon, Princess
Sabra (The King's Daughter).
Vittore Carpaccio. St.
George and the Dragon. Triumph
of St. George.
Correggio Madonna
and Child with St. George.
Lucas Cranach the Elder. St.
George.
Gentile da Fabriano. St.
Mary Magdalene, St. Nicholas of Bari, St. John the Baptist, St. George.
Andrea Mantegna. St.
George.
Hans Memling The
Virgin and Child with an Angel, St. George and a Donor.
Mikhail Nesterov St.
George and Dragon.
Raphael St.
George;
St. George and
the Dragon.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti The
Wedding of St. George and the Princess Sabra.
Peter Paul Rubens St.
George and the Dragon.
Russian Icon. St.
George. St. George and the Dragon.
St.
George on Foot.
Cosme Tura. St.
George and the Dragon.
Paolo Uccello. St.
George and the Dragon.
Rogier van der Weyden St.
George and the Dragon, Sforza
Triptych. St. Jerome and St. George.
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