Saint George the Martyr

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Excerpt from Saint George the Martyr: XII Representations by Artists of the XIV-XVI Centuries, With an Introduction and NotesAfigure as St. Michael to fill a side panel or to stand beside the Virgin and Child. Perhaps the noblest instance of his appearance in this function is in Giorgione's Madonna of Caste] franco. Donatello's famous statue of St. George. Once in its niche at Or San Michele. Now in the Bargello. Is on the other hand a good instance of the great sculptor's independence of tradi tion, it is difficult to see in this figure anything but a fine specimen of Italian peasant youth dressed u in character. Yet his fine little bas relief of t e fight with the dragon. Below the niche. Is a true realisation of the subject. To admit all this is not to deny the proud claims of this figure in every other respect. We are at any rate still far from the stage of development in which an artist's friend or patron masquerades as the Saint. If we wish to grasp all the wide dif ference between a true and a false conception in art, we ma compare. On the one hand. The noble fresco of t. George presenting one of the Ca valli knights to the Virgin. In Sant' Anastasia at Verona, or the uite sincere Flemish picture in the Munich Gal ery of the Saint as patron of an.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.