Today it is 'St Georges Day'
Patron saint of England, Malta, Aragon & Catalonia (parts of Spain) and Romania; Father born in Turkey, Mother was Syrian; Was a Roman Soldier; Died in Palestine (having never set foot in Britain); He's a Christian Saint, also a Muslim & Jewish pr...
So a typically modern "mixture" ....
... my wife never pardoned him on the dragon issue - she will be delighted to read that he had learned his lesson due to the bad PR ! Marcus
Egads! Like Brian Cohen?
Good God, Man! What?!? Our patron saint was a Turkish-Syrian hybrid polytheist who lived in foreign lands and was "claimed" as a messiah by three religions like Brian Cohen (Monty Python's Life of Brian)? Next you'll be saying our Royal dynasties spoke Fr...
I believe 'Brave Sir Robin' did exist.......
but as for seeing Santa, I stopped drinking Fly Agaric imbued reindeer urine many years ago ;-)
In the original, he "tamed" the dragon rather than slaying it
We are all filled with Dragons that need taming. This is my version of St George (from Russian Novgorod original) Cazalea ...
Much prefer a taming!
Lovely picture, Mike - but where is the fair maiden? Not often depicted in medieval Orthodox art I guess. Cheers, Giles
Well, there was a whole village to be rescued
Which was beyond my ability to paint in a week's workshop. Here's an older icon done by a master (in the Tretyakov Gallery), with the village and the fair maiden ...
I was hoping for......
........a bit more 'fair' ;-) and preferably without this problem: ...
