SAINT GEORGE SLAYING THE DRAGON

细节
SAINT GEORGE SLAYING THE DRAGON

SCHOOL OF EMMANUEL TZANES, CRETAN, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Saint George, mounted on a vigorously rearing grey charger, transfixes the dragon with his lance whilst the princess makes her escape, in the background on the right, the king and his soldiers are to be seen upon the ramparts of a tower, whilst on the left are the fortified walls and towers of a town, the reverse with a later inscription in black ink, 'Pisan artist, Veronese artist, year 1466'
10 x 8in. (25.5 x 20.5cm.)
出版
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux Arts, L'art des icônes en Crète et dans les îles après Byzance,, (1982), No. 41, fig.43
展览
Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1982

拍品专文

The panel should be compared with works by Emmanuel Tzanes (1610-1690), in particular an icon in the Benaki Museum dated 1682, (see M. Chatzidakis, Contribution à l'étude de la peinture post-byzantine in 'l'Héllenisme Contemporain', (Athens, 1953), pl. XVIII, 17, reproduced in Études sur la peinture post-byzantine, (London, 1976)), and another in the Byzantine Museum, Athens (see N. Drandakis, \kO Emmanouhl Tzane Mpounialhs\K, (Athens, 1962), p.162, 43, 154).

In her catalogue to the Charleroi exhibition Theano Chatzidakis remarks upon tremendous similarities between this icon and those in the Byzantine and Benaki Museums. She suggests that "the technical execution must also be paralleled with the work from the workshop of this painter [Tzanes] who was in the habit of producing several copies of each work".

Emmanuel Tzanes Bounialis of Rethymnon moved to Venice in 1655 and remained there until his death in 1690.

For information on the legend of Saint George see footnote to lot 319.