Saint Georges passant sur la Mer
Abstract
«Saint Georges Riding Over the Sea»
This article discusses the iconographic pattern of Saint George killing the dragon and saving the young boy. In this particular case, the Saint is shown riding over an aquatic ground which is believed to denote the sea. Taking into consideration the extant published paradigms from both the icon and mural painting of the islands, Cyprus, Rhodes and Crete the author concludes that the creation of Saint George riding of the sea is not a crusader one, rather an iconography that was probably invented in the south continental and insular Greece.
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DIMITROKALLIS, G. (2011). Saint Georges passant sur la Mer. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 26, 367–372. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.455
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