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Taming St George

Posted: 23/04/12 09:13 | 4 Comments

Uccello’s painting of George and the dragon appears to depict a male hero coming to the rescue of a maiden in distress. But does the composition of the painting belie this reading? Is the maiden taming the dragon successfully herself, without the need for St George to intervene? Writers including the poet Ursula Fanshawe and novelist Oscar Wilde and Margaret Forster have used an actual or imagined painting as the basis for their work.