St. George and the Dragon
In the early seventeenth century, the Italian taste for tabletop bronzes reached England, where they were collected avidly by connoisseurs at the English court. When the Florentine sculptor Francesco Fanelli came to London in the early 1630s, King Charles I gave him a pension and began collecting his small mythological bronzes. A version of this group was displayed in the king’s most treasured space, the Cabinet Room at Whitehall Palace.
Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Brian Allen, Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (1993-2012)
c. 1635
Bronze, on a later wooden base with tortoiseshell veneer and gilt bronze mounts
29.2 x 29.2 x 20.3 cm
B2012.4
Digital image courtesy Yale Center for British Art; free to use under the Center's Image Terms of Use
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Yale Center for British Art
Permanent collection