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Saint George and the Dragon

Saint George and the Dragon

late 1600s
painted and gilded wood
Overall: 100.9 x 75.5 x 29 cm (39 3/4 x 29 3/4 x 11 7/16 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1959.341
Location: 214 Central and Northern European

Description

Saint George, a Roman soldier martyred for his Christian faith, is best known for slaying a fearsome dragon that terrorized the city of Silene, in Libya. George offered to kill the monster if residents of the city convert to Christianity. Here, George stands triumphantly over the dragon, writhing as it dies. The artist deliberately incorporated features intended to make his figure seem more familiar: the dragon seems more canine than reptilian, while George wears armor from the recent past and bears almost portrait-like facial features.
  • Kurt Rossacher (Salzburg, Austria), sold to Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin..
    Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1959.
  • "Year in Review 1960" The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XLVII, no. 10 (December, 1960): 244. Reproduced: p. 244 www.jstor.org
    "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, October-December 1960." The Art Quarterly XXIV, no. 1 (Spring 1961): 92-105. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 98-99
    Ditner, David Charles. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Thesis Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University 1986. Mentioned: p. 408-410; Reproduced: fig. 53a
    Cleveland Museum of Art. Images of the Mind. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).
    Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).
    Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).
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