1316) MASSIVELY LARGE VICTORIAN PANEL PRINTED ON COTTON DEPICTING ST. GEORGE SLAYING THE DRAGON: A major university deaccession where it was safely stored and maintained in superb condition until now. Maintaining its original metal hanger.

Dimensions: 96 X 83.9 inches

Discussion: As the legend goes, Saint George was a soldier venerated in Roman Catholicism who defeated a dragon that extorted tribute from villagers. When the villagers ran out of livestock and trinkets for the tribute, the villagers began offering human tribute to the dragon. When a princess was chosen as the following tribute, St George slew the dragon and saved the prince. This folklore is believed to have originated in Cappadocia ( a province of the Roman Empire in Anatolia) as early as the 11th and 12th centuries. It was transferred to Libya in the 13th-century Golden Legend (Legenda Aurea or Legenda Sanctorum), a collection of Saintly biographies authored by Jacobus de Voragine that was widely read in late medieval Europe. ).

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