Page:Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, 1887, vol 2.djvu/163

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GKOUGE n landscape with two towers in distance. Painted in Florence in 1500 ; presented by Guidobaldo I., Duke of Urbino, to Henry VII. of England, in return for the insignia of the Garter ; registered in inventories of Henry VIII. and Charles I., after whose death sold for tloO ; afterwards in Paris in possession of Marquis de Hourdis, and <>f M. de In None, who paid 500 pistoles for it. In Musi'e Napoleon in ISO'2. Engraved by L. Vorstennan ; DCS Clranges ; N. do Lar- inessin. Tapestry made at Mortlake in time of Charles I. and at Irnhani, Lincolnshire. Sketch in the Uflixi, Florence ; engraved by Vorstennan from a ropy. C. X ('., Itaph- ael, i. 27H ; Are.lueologia, 2!>S ; Felibien, En- tretiens, i. 2'2S ; Landon, Musi'e, iii. PI. !.">. By l!/i],!ia<-t, Louvre ; wood, H. 12 in. X 10 in. St. George in armour, on a gray horse, gallops into the foreground, and having broken his lance upon the dragon, is about to despatch him with his sword ; in the dis- tance, Cleodolinda starts in flight, with Perugia in 1504. Ik-longed to Cardinal Maxarin ; bought of his heirs for Louis XIV. St. George and the Dragon, Raphael, Hermitage, St. Petersburg. arms extended ; background, a beautiful landscape of trees and rocks. Painted in St. Gonrgi', Truf 1h.> D'lt'nn Rlp k >el, ! .. (C. ('. } ; but Villot says it w:is iu the col- lection of Francis I., and thinks it the pict- ure cited by Lonm/xo (i. -IS), as painted for the Duke of t'rbino in 15(tli. Studv in the I'tli/.i. Engraved by X. Lannessin ; Vorst- erman ; ,1. I,. Petit. C. - C'.. I!apha<'I. i. 20(1 ; Passavant, ii. -2-2; Miintx, lid; Call. Croxat, i. PI. 1(1 ; Musi'e roval, i : L-inili>ii. Musee, iv. PI. (1-2 ; Villot, Cat. Louvre ; Fil- liol, i. PI. 1!. P>y Tin/iiri'/ln, National Gallery, London ; canvas, H. 5 ft. 2 in. X ! ft. '! in. Princess Cleodolinda kneels in foreground ; in mid- dle distance a dead body, and beyond on the hillside St. George on horseback driving the dragon into the sea ; in background a castle, and a golden sky with glory of an- gels. Splendid colour and masterly treat- ment ; painted with the inspired freedom of an improvisation. Bequeathed in IS.'U by Rev. W. H. Can-. Kit-liter, Italian Art in Nat. Gal., SO. By Tinturelln, Hermitage, St. Petersburg. The saint, armed and on horseback, attacks the dragon, near which lies the body of a