Saint George and the Dragon in Gold on Black Canvas

by Serge Averbukh

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$4,500

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60.000 x 40.000 inches

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Saint George and the Dragon in Gold on Black Canvas

Artist

Serge Averbukh

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting

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Introducing the ‘Antique-Vintage-Retro’ collection by Serge Averbukh, showcasing various historical images, which were meticulously restored and enhanced by means of new media, and presented in a form of high quality large format fine art prints. Here you will find pieces featuring Saint George and the Dragon in Gold on Black Canvas.
Saint George also known as George of Lydda, was a soldier of Cappadocian Greek origins, member of the Praetorian Guard for Roman emperor Diocletian, who was sentenced to death for refusing to recant his Christian faith. He became one of the most venerated saints and megalo-martyrs in Christianity, and he has been especially venerated as a military saint since the Crusades.
In hagiography, as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers and one of the most prominent military saints, he is immortalized in the legend of Saint George and the Dragon. His memorial, Saint George's Day, is traditionally celebrated on 23 April.
England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Catalonia, and several other nation states, cities, universities, professions and organisations all claim Saint George as their patron.
The legend of Saint George and the Dragon was first recorded in the 11th century, in a Georgian source. It reached Europe in the 12th century. In the Golden Legend, by 13th-century Archbishop of Genoa Jacobus da Varagine, George's death was at the hands of Dacian, and about the year 287.
The tradition tells that a fierce dragon was causing panic at the city of Silene, Libya, at the time Saint George arrived there. In order to prevent the dragon from devastating people from the city, they gave two sheep each day to the dragon, but when the sheep were not enough they were forced to sacrifice humans instead of the two sheep. The human to be sacrificed was elected by the city's own people and that time the king's daughter was chosen to be sacrificed but no one was willing to take her place. Saint George saved the girl by slaying the dragon with a lance. The king was so grateful that he offered him treasures as a reward for saving his daughter's life, but Saint George refused it and instead he gave these to the poor. The people of the city were so amazed at what they had witnessed that they became Christians and were all baptized.
The Golden Legend offered a historicised narration of George's encounter with a dragon. This account was very influential and it remains the most familiar version in English owing to William Caxton's 15th-century translation.
In the mediaeval romances, the lance with which Saint George slew the dragon was called Ascalon, after the Levantine city of Ashkelon, today in Israel.

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February 2nd, 2020

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