Saint George (Raphael, Louvre)
| Saint George and the Dragon | |
|---|---|
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| Artist | Raphael |
| Year | c. 1503–1505 |
| Medium | Oil on wood |
| Dimensions | 31 cm × 27 cm (12 in × 11 in) |
| Location | Louvre, Paris |
Saint George or Saint George and the Dragon is a small painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael, executed c. 1503–1505. It is housed in the Louvre in Paris. A later version of the same subject is the Saint George and the Dragon in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
History
This painting and the equally small Saint Michael, also in the Louvre,[1] are a pair. In the Mazarin Collection they were joined together, forming a diptych, and bound in leather. Louis XIV acquired them from Cardinal Mazarin's heirs in 1661.[2]
The Saint George has sometimes been ascribed to the artist's Roman period, because the horse resembles one of the horses of Monte Cavallo (the Quirinal Palace). However, Raphael could easily have known this particular horse from a drawing of it, done by one of Leonardo's pupils.[3] To judge by the still somewhat naïve and Peruginesque style of the painting, it is really one of Raphael's early works, dating from about 1504. He produced another painting of the same subject a little later (the aforementioned panel in Washington D.C.), and towards the end of his life he painted a large Saint Michael which is also in the Louvre.
See also
Notes
- ^ Cf. Louvre entry
- ^ Champlin, John Denison; Charles Callahan Perkins (1913). Cyclopedia of painters and paintings. C. Scribner's sons. p. 258. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ISBN 978-0-7661-9396-3. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ^ G. P. Lomazzo, Trattato Dell' Arte Della Pittura Scultura Ed Architettura, (reprint) Kessinger Publishing (2010).
- ISBN 978-1-4254-9624-1. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
Further reading
- J. Pitman, Raphael Trail: The Secret History of One of the World's Most Precious Works of Art (2006)
External links
Media related to Saint George with the Dragon (Louvre) by Raffaello Sanzio at Wikimedia Commons
