Social History of Art

My essay, "George and the Dragon, Perseus and Andromeda, and the Renaissance Damsel in Distress" is posted on this web site under ESSAYS BY PERIOD (scroll down to 16th Italian). My essay discusses the overlap of traditional late medieval Christian and chivalric magery with the new Renaissance theme of the triumphal warrior-ruler on a horse, this at a time when Bordone's hometown was waging war against the Ottoman Turks.