"The Best Saint George" Topic

"Lancing point-first from horseback is the hardest way to hit a dragon. By the Renaissance—with its humanism—St George had graduated to a sword and was taking slashing blows at it. But Bernat Martorell, painting his George in the International Gothic style of the mid-15th century, was still holding to the Medieval ideal—the one in all the best paintings: take the creature at spearpoint.

You can see the reason—keeping the dragon very far away. It was said to have plague. If you like metaphors, you might say it was the plague. St George's dragon specifically is always curiously small and at the bottom of the painting. This seems to be an allegory of poisonousness—it is not a great beast that rips your head off but a thing low and insidious, that nevertheless is dangerous enough to require a sheep a day and that—when you are out of sheep—will take your virgins. Also: harder to hit.

Regardless of the numerous delusions and myths involved, there is a kind of real success here: for humans, for art…"

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Amicalement
Armand

From the Playing D&D With Porn Stars blog.

Catchy name for a blog.
I wonder how many extra clicks you get with porn in the title?

Anyone do something like that in miniatures?

You call that small?

Meet a croc', a 'gator or a Komodo monitor that size in the bush and you would be cacking your housseaux.

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

Beautiful painting indeed. Also, it shows an interesting style of blackened armor worn by a Knight of Santiago in the mid-fifteenth century.

Glad you enjoyed it my friend!

Amicalement
Armand