It's in all the textbooks, but can't remember it. If you aren't positive what picture I'm referring to, you could provide a link to a good medieval paintings site... Thanks.
2006-07-25 16:17:22 · 7 answers · asked by neksute 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Saint George and the Dragon
about 1470
UCCELLO, Paolo
about 1397 - 1475
NG6294. Bought, 1959.
This picture shows two episodes from the story of Saint George: his defeat of a plague-bearing dragon that had been terrorising a city; and the rescued princess bringing the dragon to heel (with her belt as a leash).
In the sky, a storm is gathering. The eye of the storm lines up with Saint George's lance, suggesting that divine intervention has helped him to victory. Uccello uses the lance to emphasise the angle from which Saint George attacks the dragon, helping to establish a three-dimensional space. The strange patches of grass illustrate Uccello's obsessive concern with linear perspective and his tendency to create decorative pattern.
The story is from a popular collection of saints's lives written in the 13th century, called 'The Golden Legend'. An earlier less dramatic version of the same subject by Uccello is in the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris.
Oil on canvas
55.6 x 74.2 cm.
This may or may not be it..
2006-07-25 16:40:46 · answer #1 · answered by sassy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're probably referring to a number of paintings of St. George slaying a Dragon. There's one at the below link.
2006-07-25 23:23:46 · answer #2 · answered by Jolly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you might be talking about St. George Slaying the Dragon
2006-07-25 23:25:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the many versions of St George and the Dragon.
Try www.wga.hu.index
2006-07-26 08:36:14 · answer #4 · answered by samanthajanecaroline 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is called "the knight and the dragon" if it is the painting I think you are talking about.
2006-07-25 23:21:35 · answer #5 · answered by dr. ruth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
st george and the dragon
2006-07-25 23:21:00 · answer #6 · answered by tom b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look on the online textbooks
2006-07-25 23:20:59 · answer #7 · answered by screwtape 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋