Saint George and the Dragon  1435

by Bernat Martorell

Bernat Martorell was the greatest painter of the first half of the fifteenth century in Catalonia in northeastern Spain. Depicted here is the most frequently represented episode from the popular legend of Saint George, in which the model Christian knight saves a town and rescues a beautiful princess. Conceived in the elegant, decorative International Gothic style, the pain...
Size: 
155.6 × 98.1 cm (61 1/4 × 38 5/8 in.)
Medium: 
Tempera on panel
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago