id:			156841
accession number:	1992.60
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.60
updated:		2022-01-04 17:12:38.270000

St. George and the Dragon, c. 1530s. Francesco Salviati (Italian, 1510-1563). Black chalk with red chalk, stumped; sheet: 30.3 x 43.2 cm (11 15/16 x 17 in.); secondary support: 43.3 x 55.1 cm (17 1/16 x 21 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1992.60

title:				St. George and the Dragon
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creation date:			c. 1530s
creation date earliest:		1530
creation date latest:		1539
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Italy, 16th century
technique:	black chalk with red chalk, stumped
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Italian
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Francesco Salviati (Italian, 1510-1563)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 30.3 x 43.2 cm (11 15/16 x 17 in.); Secondary Support: 43.3 x 55.1 cm (17 1/16 x 21 11/16 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	cream(3) laid paper, laid down on cream(3) laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper center, in brown ink: C. Salviati ; upper left, in graphite: Box6 - 5. ; center, in graphite: 10
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Selected Acquisitions
	opening date:   1993-02-09T05:00:00
	<i>Selected Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA, "Selected Acquisitions" (Feb. 9-Apr. 11, 1993), cma Bulletin 80 (1993), p. 74 no. 284, illus. p. 54.<br><br>Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 117): February 7, 2013 - June 3, 2013.

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PROVENANCE

	Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (1697-1759), Holkam Hall, Norfolk, England; by descent within the Coke family; [their sale, Christie's, London, 2 July 1991, p. 25, lot 6]; [Artemis Fine Arts, Ltd., London (David Carritt, Ltd., London)]
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According to a legend based on Greek myth, as Saint George passed through Libya, he rescued a king’s daughter who had been left as a sacrifice to placate a vicious dragon. In gratitude for being delivered from the monster’s tyranny, the king’s subjects converted to Christianity. Here George wears armor in the ancient style based on Roman sculpture. Classical armor in Renaissance art was reserved for elite male subjects as a sign of their virtue. As a military saint, George’s attire conveys his antiquity as an early Christian hero (died about AD 303), conferring on him a sense of Roman authority and gravity.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"1991 Annual Report." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 79, no. 6 (1992): 155-231.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 180
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161363

	Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1992." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (1993): 38-79.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 54; Mentioned: p. 74
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388

	"1993 Annual Report." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 6 (1994): 143-218.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 155
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457

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IMAGES

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