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16th century pendantBritish Museum London

British Museum London

Lesser George of the Order of the Garter, 1628-1629, made for William Compton British Museum London

Flemish, gothic, ivory, 1340-

1360

Diptych with Saint George

and the Dragon and the Virgin and Child with

Saints

Walters Museum

Part of the insignia of the Order of the Knight of the Garter from 1628 British Museum London

The Most Noble Order of the Garter, Collar Badge (The George), sent to Christian IV by

James I in 1603

The Most Noble Order of the Garter, Collar Badge (The George)

Ex-Rothschild collection

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St George and the dragon flanked by the Dandolo Arms Venetian wall plaque circa 1500Victoria & Albert Museum London

St George and the Dragon, Southwark Cathedral

Earthenware dish from the 1700's British Museum London

Ceramic Made in Florence around 1520 Musée

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Michel Colombe(c. 1430 – c. 1513)Musée du Louvre

Michel ColombeSaint Georges combattant le dragon; sculpture sur marbre,vers 1508, provenant de la chapelle du château de Gaillon (1,750 × 2,720 m)Musée du Louvre

London Treasure House, 19-21 Hatton Garden Figure holding a small St George and the Dragon on top of a pot 

Donatello The base of the niche in which Donatello's St George was placed, with the bas-relief representing the saint's combat with the dragon for the freeing of the Princess of Cappadocia (detail)

Donatello St George and the Dragonc. 1416Marble, 39 x 120 cmMuseo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

Donatello’s marble St. George was originally sculpted in 1416 for a niche on Or San Michele

St George, Misericord in

Norwich Cathedral

St. George (with diamond armour) possibly French 16th c. British museum

Double-sovereign St George & Dragon motif designed by Benedetto Pistrucci which is still in use today

Saint George Tympanum, Brinsop, Hertfordshire

St. George and the Dragon Sculpture by the great ceramicist, Gunnar Nylund, for the

Rorstrand pottery in Sweden

Windsor

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Singapore

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

St. George and the Dragon, conceived in 1977 first cast in 1984, bronze

Singapore

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

St. George and the Dragon, conceived in 1977 first cast in 1984, bronze

Saint Tropez

Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

St. George and the Dragon, 1964

Antonello Gagini (1478-1536) ~ San Giorgio e il drago ~ Palermo, Chiesa di San Francesco d’Assisi

A statue of St.George adorning a house in Amsterdam

Paris, Eglise Saint-Georges de la Villette

Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium Sint Joriskerk

15th century German

sculpture Victoria &

Albert Museum London

15th century sculpture

British Museum London

16th century sculpture

attributed to Giovan Angelo

del Maino. (Huntington

Library)

Gdansk Muzeum

NarodoweGdansk,

Poland

Gothic statue of the St. George and the Dragon from 1485 at the Artus Court in Gdansk, Poland

St George over the St George Brotherhood Mansion Gdansk, Poland

St. Mary's Church. St. George and the Dragon. Gothic sculptures and murals

Gdansk, Statue over the St George Brotherhood Mansion

St. George – Knox, Maine

Sculpture (2005)

St George and the dragon

Art Nouveau 1930

by Beryl Ellis

Sir Alfred Gilbert (1854–1934),

St George, Made of bronze, rich dark

brown patina on green veined marble base

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Spanish Saint George, 15th century Wood with polychromy

Tilman Riemenschneider 1490-95 ca

Kathleen Friedenberg

Bronze sculpture by sculptor Kathleen Friedenberg, American English-born sculptress who started out as a veterinarian and a medical illustrator

Emmanuel Fremiet (1824-1910) A gold patina bronze 

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Tinted alabaster, English, ca 1375–1420, National Gallery of Art, Washington

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