St George Research

The person represented in the sculpture is Saint George, he is seen on a horse with a javelin and people in a tower looking from up above also a dragon can be seen at the bottom. For the Saint George sculpture it doesn’t say who made it on the guidebook. What I found through research I have concluded that the Saint George sculpture was made in the 15 century and I believe that the Saint George sculpture that I saw at the McNay is a copy of the famous architect Donatello sculpture of Saint George, Donatello Sculpture was made in 1410-1415. The Saint George sculpture at the McNay was founded to be in Germany. I would say that based on what I have gather from the time in the 15 century is where the Germans started to convert to Christianity but

One of the shape that sticks out to me is Saint George head it is very circular in how it was created and so the shape you see is a circle. Another obvious thing that can be founded on the castle mostly you can see the rectangles on the building when you look at the windows and if you look closely at the horse you can see diamonds on the horse’s mantle. I would say that the sculpture is very light and that the sculpture is a source since it tell of a story through its actions. There is little color but most is dark color and there are the primary colors of red, orange and blue. Looking at the sculpture I can you tell you that the artist who made this was going for real texture when he created his piece. The sculpture space is of depth and perspective when you look at the sculpture the castle looks far away from where Saint George due to the fact that they placed the castle behind the horses tail which then they used the rocks to create the effect that the Saint George is further from the castle and is doing battle with the dragon. The sculpture has the effect of implied movement which means that from what I can see I can only assuming that in the sculpture I know he moving due to the fact that the artist put it clear when he made the sculpture in a moving way by having Saint George hold his lance sort of going down and the horse stepping on the rock as if he is moving to charge the dragon. From what I can tell the artist implied both unity and variety he uses unity through the rocks since they are very similar to each other to create the effect of unity and he uses variety with the horse and the castle and people they are all different but they bring the sculpture together. The