St. George and the Dragon
around 1515 | Leonhard Beck
Leonhard Beck’s principal activity was creating drawings for woodcuts. From 1512 to 1518 he worked on a series of magnificent prints commissioned by Emperor Maximilian I. The depiction of the legend of St. George, who is said to have rescued a princess held prisoner by a dragon, is imbued with the same spirit of late Medieval knighthood as the works intended for Maximilian. The principal motif of the slaying of the dragon is in the foreground, accompanied by earlier and later secondary scenes in the background.
Leonhard Beck’s principal activity was creating drawings for woodcuts. From 1512 to 1518 he worked on a series of magnificent prints commissioned by Emperor Maximilian I. The depiction of the legend of St. George, who is said to have rescued a princess held prisoner by a dragon, is imbued with the same spirit of late Medieval knighthood as the works intended for Maximilian. The principal motif of the slaying of the dragon is in the foreground, accompanied by earlier and later secondary scenes in the background.
Artist:
Leonhard Beck (um 1480 Augsburg - 1542 Augsburg) DNB
Time:
around 1515
Object Name
Painting
Culture
German
Material/technology:
spruce wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 136,7 cm × 116,2 cm
Framed: 154,7 cm × 136 cm × 11,5 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 5669
Provenance
Coll. Ambras
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