Create your own bespoke print of Paolo Uccello’s Saint George & the Dragon from our collection. About this painting Saint George & the Dragon, about 1470 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1959 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

Saint George is shown about to defeat the dragon, by the edge of the sea. The treatment of the subject is unusual: the figure of the fleeing princess is dominant, & in the centre lies a corpse which the dragon was about to eat. The figure of God the Father blessing the saint appears in the sky. The visual narrative reads back from the princess. The blue & rose colours are picked up in the draperies of the corpse & Saint George, & in the pink & blue tints of the cloudscape. The shoreline leads the eye back into the picture space, while the V-shape formed by the leaning tree-trunk & the princess acts to anchor the composition. The high horizon & viewpoint help create tension & drama in the picture. The small size of the canvas suggests it was painted for a domestic setting, for devotional use. It was first recorded in 1648 in the Palazzo Correr in Venice, although we do not know whether it was made for the Correr family. The ' Golden Legend' relates that Saint George was a knight from Cappadocia (in modern Turkey), who rescued a maiden from a dragon at Silene, in Libya, a deed of Christian courage, which caused many to be converted. Later he was martyred as a result of the persecutions of the Emperor Diocletian. ...

Create your own bespoke print of Gustave Moreau's Saint George & the Dragon from our collection. About this painting Saint George & the Dragon, 1889-90 © The National Gallery, London This painting joined our collection in 1976 With our custom print service, you can order your own fully customised reproduction from the National Gallery Collection & exhibitions. Choose your own size, print material & frames & have your masterpiece delivered straight to your door. ...

The standard version of the story of Saint George is in ' The Golden Legend'. Saint George rescued a princess who had been sacrificed to appease the dragon which was terrorising the inhabitants of a city. He is shown charging the beast while the princess flees to the left. Elements of the landscape, including the town, may be derived from north Italian, or northern European, precedents. The painting has been dated about 1615, but, as it seems rather earlier than his ' Landscape with Tobias', may be of about 1610-11. ...

The picture probably shows the King of France kneeling with a bishop to ask forgiveness of Saint Giles. A member of the Royal Hunt had shot at Saint Giles' companion hind (deer), but injured the saint, who was protecting her. The tower in the background is probably that of Pontoise. On the reverse of the panel is a damaged grisaille showing a bishop saint in a niche. This & ' The Mass of Saint Giles' are part of an altarpiece which included ' Episodes from the Life of a Bishop Saint' & the ' Baptism of Clovis' (both in Washington). The costume suggests the dating of 1500. ...

The inscription may be a later addition & it is not certain whether Saint Hugh of Grenoble or Saint Hugh of Lincoln is represented. Both the proposed saints were Carthusians (who wore white habits). However, the habit may have been underpainted only and ...

Legend credited Saint James with bringing Christianity to Spain. When passing through Zaragoza he was visited by the Virgin, who gave him a statuette of herself on a jasper column. An enormous basilica called El Pilar has grown on the site, one of the mos ...

Saint Jerome (about 342
- 420) was the translator of the Vulgate Bible & the chief inspiration for Christian penitents & hermits.
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Saint Jerome was on the inside face of a shutter, probably from a triptych. It was on the reverse of ' An Angel' & would have been to the right of the missing central image of the Virgin Mary, when the triptych was open. The opposite wing, also in the co ...

In the centre are shown the Virgin & Child enthroned. In the lower row, from left to right are Saints Bernardino, Anthony of Padua, Peter Martyr & John the Baptist. In the upper row are Saints Jerome, Catherine, the Pieta, Saint Sebastian & a female ...