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Original fileA knight in dark armor brandishes a sword as his white charger rears over a winged dragon. Fragments of a shattered lance lie scattered on the dark earth, and a small female figure runs toward a hilly landscape in the distance. This image is a reproduction of Raphael's circa 1506 painting, featured on a Panamanian postage stamp.
In the Renaissance, the motif of Saint George was frequently used as a Neoplatonic allegory for the soul's triumph over the material world and base desires. It represents the 'psychomachia,' or the internal battle between the higher intellectual soul and the lower, chaotic nature represented by the dragon.
RAPHAEL SANZIO PANAMA PANAMA AEREO B/. 0.21 DE LA RUE DE COLOMBIA
Translation
Panama Air Mail
Jacobus de Voragine
Author of the Golden Legend, the primary hagiographical source for the story of Saint George and the Dragon.
Marsilio Ficino
His Neoplatonic commentaries often framed the struggle against monstrous forces as the soul's ascent and purification.
Object
Oil on panel
religious
Digital Source
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
scan of original
1363 × 1705 px
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