File:Francesco Salviati - St. George and the Dragon - 1992.60 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Size of this JPG preview of this TIF file: 800 × 578 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 231 pixels | 640 × 462 pixels | 1,024 × 740 pixels | 1,280 × 925 pixels | 2,560 × 1,850 pixels | 4,659 × 3,366 pixels.
Original file (4,659 × 3,366 pixels, file size: 44.9 MB, MIME type: image/tiff)
Captions
Captions
Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Summary[edit]
St. George and the Dragon
(   ) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist |
Francesco Salviati |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title |
St. George and the Dragon |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object type | drawing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
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. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | c. 1530s | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Black chalk with red chalk, stumped | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Sheet: 30.3 x 43.2 cm (11 15/16 x 17 in.); Secondary Support: 43.3 x 55.1 cm (17 1/16 x 21 11/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current location |
Drawings |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accession number |
1992.6 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of creation | Italy, 16th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | John L. Severance Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.60 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing[edit]
 
|
This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. |
| The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
|
|
This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project with the Cleveland Museum of Art. See the Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
|
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 00:04, 8 March 2019 |  | 4,659 × 3,366 (44.9 MB) | Madreiling (talk | contribs) | pattypan 18.02 |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on www.wikidata.org