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Art Institute of Chicago St George Killing the Dragon

Painting by Bernat Martorell

Saint George Killing the Dragon
Saint George and the Dragon
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Saint George and the Dragon, on exhibition at the Art Found of Chicago
Artist Bernat Martorell
Twelvemonth c.  1434 – c. 1435
Medium Tempera on panel
Movement International Gothic
Dimensions 155.6 cm × 98.ane cm (61.25 in × 38.625 in)
Location Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Owner The Art Institute of Chicago
Accession 1933.786

Saint George Killing the Dragon , besides known equally Saint George and the Dragon is a tempera painting by the Spanish artist Bernat Martorell, painted c.  1434 – c. 1435. Information technology depicts the famous fable of St. George and the Dragon in which the Christian knight, St. George, rescues a princess from a dragon.[1] [two]

History [edit]

The painting was likely commissioned past the Catalonian authorities as an altarpiece for the Chapel of St. George, in the Regime Palace of Catalonia in Barcelona. The four side-panels that would likely take also been fixed to the altar, draw the martyrdom of St. George, and are currently on display in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The painting was about probably painted some time between 1434 and 1435.[1] [two]

Starting in 1867, the painting changed easily numerous times until it was eventually sold to Charles Deering in 1917. In 1921, the painting was loaned to the Art Institute of Chicago by Deering. Then, in 1924, the painting went to Deering'due south daughters, Marion Deering-McCormick and Barbara Deering-Danielson, who donated the piece of work to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1933.[2]

Description [edit]

The piece of work, painted in International Gothic style, depicts Saint George'due south legend in the setting of Catalonia, Kingdom of spain, during the beginning one-half of the 15th century. The painting was initially made as the centerpiece of an altar, and was surrounded by four, smaller, narrative panels.

The scene in the foreground shows St. George on a stark white horse, about to defeat the dragon by stabbing it with his lance. St. George is depicted in black armor with a halo above his head. The saint'southward expression appears at-home and stoic in contrast to the dragon's, which seems aroused and excited. The dragon has dark-green scales, is winged, and has red eyes. The dragon'south scales, and the armor and halo on St. George are decorated with raised stucco. The ground is shown to be littered with lizards, skulls, and other bones. In the firsthand background, the princess stands praying backside them; she is dressed in a pink robe lined with ermine fur, with a large gilded crown above her reddish-golden hair. In the distance, on the other side of a valley, the princess' parents and common people can be seen to be watching apprehensively from atop a castle. The castle is surrounded past a serene and intricate countryside.[2] [3]

In the style typical of International Gothic works, the ground rises steeply behind the scene but, unusually, it does not stretch backside the entire painting. Rather, in that location is a articulate separation between the foreground and the background. While the background maintains the decorative nature and continuity of color typical of International Gothic backgrounds, the foreground is more expressive, and contains gradations of color and lighting.[three]

The main axis of the composition can exist placed by the shaft of St. George's lance and an imaginary vertical line drawn through the eyes of the dragon, the horse, and the princess. The two lines create a "V" shape that outlines the castle in the groundwork.[3]

Farther reading [edit]

  • Marcel Dieulafoy, Art in Spain and Portugal, London, 1913, p. 175, fig. 347.
  • "An Altar Console by Benito Martorell," International Studio 76, 305 (1922), p. 59.
  • R[obert] B. H[arshe], "Saint George Combating the Dragon," Message of the Art Institute of Chicago 16 (1922), pp. eighteen–21 (cover ill.).
  • Georgiana Goddard King, "The Rider on the White Horse," Art Message 5 (1922), p. 6, fig. x.
  • The Fine art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1925, p. 169, no. 2289.
  • Paula Pope Miller, review of Roosval, Nya Sankt Gorans Studier, in Art Message 9 (1926–27), pp. 163–64, figs. 1, 3, 4.
  • August L. Mayer, Historia de la pintura española, Madrid, 1928, p. 47; 2nd ed., 1942, p. 98.
  • Gabriel Rouchès, La Peinture espagnole: Le Moyen Âge, Paris, 1929, pp. 65, 138–40.
  • Walter Dill Scott and Robert B. Harshe, Charles Deering, 1852–1927: An Appreciation, Boston, 1929, p. 51 (ill. opp. p. 50).
  • Chandler Rathfon Mail, A History of Spanish Painting, vol. 2, Cambridge, Mass., 1930, pp. 393–98, 414–xv, 424, 442, fig. 223.
  • George Harold Edgell, A History of Sienese Painting, New York, 1932, pp. 107–8, fig. 115.
  • B[enjamin] Rowland, Jaume Huguet, Cambridge, Mass., 1932, p. 23.
  • Fine art Institute of Chicago, Almanac Written report, 1933, p. 34.
  • Jane M. Wilson, "Once in a Lifetime: The Art of Five Centuries and a Dozen Schools under One Roof," Delphian Quarterly 16 (1933), pp. iii–4.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections, 1935, p. 24 (ill.).
  • Chandler Rathfon Mail, A History of Spanish Painting, vol. vii, Cambridge, Mass., 1938, pp. threescore, 120, 204–05, 669.
  • F[rank] J[ewett] Mather, Western European Painting of the Renaissance, New York, 1939, p. 222, fig. 128.
  • Hans Tietze, Meisterwerke europäische Malerei in Amerika, Vienna, 1935, p. 307, pl. 9 (Eng. ed., Masterpieces of European Painting in America, New York, 1939).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, A Cursory Illustrated Guide to the Collections, 1941, p. 30.
  • José Gudiol, ed., Spanish Painting, exh. cat., Toledo Museum of Art, 1941, p. 24, fig. sixteen.
  • Chandler Rathfon Post, A History of Spanish Painting, vol. viii, Cambridge, Mass., 1941, pp. 618, 622, 624, 628.
  • Regina Shoolman and Charles E. Slatkin, !due east Enjoyment of Art in America, Philadelphia and New York, 1942, p. 463, pl. 404.
  • Oskar Hagen, Patterns and Principles of Castilian Art, rev. ed., Madison, Wis., 1943, pp. 113–xv, fig. 39.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Fine art Establish of Chicago, 1945, p. 32 (ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, A Moving picture Book: Masterpieces of Painting, Fifteen and Sixteen Centuries in the Collections of The Fine art Institute of Chicago, 1946, pp. 2–five.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1948, p. 28 (ill.).
  • Everard M. Upjohn, Paul S. Wingert, and Jane Gaston Mahler, History of World Art, New York, 1949, pp. 166–67, fig. 172.
  • Stephen 5. Grancsay, "The Interrelationships of Costume and Armor," Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 8 (1950), p. 181 (ill.).
  • Jacques Lassaigne, Spanish Painting from the Catalan Frescos to El Greco, trans. Stuart Gilbert, Geneva, 1952, p. 129.
  • "Chicago's Fabulous Collectors: Fine art Institute Announces information technology will Get Treasures from their Homes," Life Magazine (October 27, 1952): 91 (ill).
  • The Fine art Institute of Chicago, An Illustrated Guide to the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1956, pp. 28–29 (ill.).
  • Chandler Rathfon Post, A History of Spanish Painting, vol. 12, Cambridge, Mass., 1958, p. 249.
  • Stora Spanska Mästare, exh. cat., Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, 1959, p. 41.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Constitute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Flick Collection, 1961, pp. 95 (ill.), 296.
  • Renzo Chiarelli, Margherita Lenzini Moriondo, and Franco Mazzini, European Painting in the 15th Century, New York, 1961, pp. 19, 222.
  • José Gudiol, The Arts of Spain, Garden City, N.Y., 1964, p. 153.
  • Eric Young, "Medieval Painting in Kingdom of spain: Progress and Issues," Apollo 79 (1964), p. 12, fig. ii.
  • Frederick A. Sweet, "Great Chicago Collectors," Apollo 84 (1966), p. 204, 207, fig. 41.
  • J[osé] M[anuel] Pita Andrade, Treasures of Espana, trans. Isabel Quigly, vol. 1, Geneva, 1967, p. 193.
  • John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, London, 1970, pp. 27–28.
  • Marian Burleigh, "The 'Triumph of Expiry' in Palermo," Marsyas: Studies in the History of Art fifteen (1970–71), pp. 54–55, pl. 22, fig. xv.
  • Fine art Institute of Chicago, 100 Masterpieces, 1978, p. 40, no. iii (ill.).
  • Mary Faith Mitchell Grizzard, "Bernardo Martorell: Fifteenth-Century Catalan Artist," Ph.D. diss., Academy of Michigan, 1978 (New York and London, 1985), pp. 185–201, 445–46, figs. 11, nineteen.
  • Mary Grizzard, "An Identification of Martorell'due south Commission for the Aragonese Corts," Fine art Bulletin 64 (1982), pp. 312–13, fig. iii.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in The Art Found of Chicago, 1988, p. 13 (ill.).
  • Judith Berg Sobré, Behind the Altar Table: The Development of the Painted Retable in Spain, 1350–1500, Columbia, Mo., 1989, p. 91, fig. 48.
  • Joan Ainaud de Lasarte, Catalan Painting, vol. 2, New York, 1990, pp. 78–80.
  • Santiago Alcolea Blanch, "Martorell, Bernat," in Dictionary of Art, vol. xx, 1996, p. 514, fig. 1.
  • Audrey Niffenegger, The Fourth dimension Traveler'southward Wife, New York, 2003, pp. 48–49.
  • M[artha] W[olff], in Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, two (2004), pp. 79–fourscore, no. 54 (encompass ill.).
  • Larry J. Feinberg, "A Cursory History of the Old Masters in the Art Institute of Chicago," Fine art Constitute of Chicago Museum Studies 32, 2 (2006), p. 12, fig. 6.
  • Judith Berg Sobré in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Castilian Paintings earlier 1600 in the Fine art Plant of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 78–86, ill.
  • Justin E.A. Kroesen, Staging the Liturgy: The Medieval Altarpiece in the Iberian Peninsula, Leuven, Paris and Walpole, Massachusetts, 2009, pp. 82–83, fig. 58.

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b "Saint George Killing the Dragon - Bernat Martorell (Castilian, most 1400–1452)". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d "Saint George and the Dragon". Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "Saint George Killing the Dragon by MARTORELL, Bernat". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 25 May 2021.

External links [edit]

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