Yellow and gray, with expressionist black image over both color blocks Incident Type: stolen Crime Category: sculpture Maker: Theo Tobiasse Period: 1984 Materials: Bronze Measurements: 8.7 x 4.6 x 15.4 inches Pieces 1 - 6 are still missing (7 and 8 have been recovered).Įach scultpure is signed by the artist and numbered. Incident Type: stolen Crime Category: lamp Maker: Tiffany Materials: Stained glass Measurements: Shade: 14" x 18"
#Dragon landscape art cracked#
One green stone near the bottom of the shade is cracked the length of the stone īase of the lampis black and is shaped like a tree with roots Incident Type: stolen Crime Category: print Maker: Pablo Picasso Period: 1949 Materials: sugarlift etching and aquatint printed in blackish ink on Japan nacre paper. St Catherine of Alexandria (c.Signed in the lower right corner in green crayon "Picasso," and numbered in pencil in the lower left corner in Roman numerals "IX of XXX." Also dated "30AA9.III (1949) in the plate lower right corner.Portrait of a Young Woman (La Muta) (c.
After the English Civil War it was sold in one of the sales of the Royal Collection at Somerset House in London on 19 December 1651. Either the 3rd or 4th earl presented it to King Charles I of England. In the early stages of his career Raphael painted a number of tiny cabinet paintings, including another St George in the Louvre, and the Vision of a Knight in the National Gallery in London.īy 1627 the painting belonged to William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1580-1630), and was at Wilton House in Wiltshire.
The traditional subject, Saint George and the Dragon, combining chivalry and Christianity, is appropriate for the occasion like his father, Guidobaldo was a condottiero, or proprietor of a band of mercenary soldiers. The honour paid to a minor Italian ruler reflected Henry's appreciation of the cultural prestige of Renaissance Italy as much as any diplomatic purpose. The painting was presumably commissioned by the Duke, either to present to the English emissary who brought the regalia to Urbino, Sir Gilbert Talbot, or to Henry himself-recent scholarship suggests the latter. The first word of the order's motto, "HONI" can be made out. The saint wears the blue garter of the English Order of the Garter, reflecting the award of this decoration in 1504 to Raphael's patron Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, by King Henry VII of England. 1505, and now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. George and the Dragon is a small oil on wood cabinet painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, painted c. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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