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has glosseng: Giovanni Bellini The episode of Saint George and the Dragon appended to the hagiography of Saint George was Eastern in origin, brought back with the Crusaders and retold with the courtly appurtenances belonging to the genre of Romance. The earliest known depictions of the motif are from tenth- or eleventh-century Cappadocia and eleventh-century Georgia and Armenia; previously, in the iconography of Eastern Orthodoxy, George had been depicted as a soldier since at least the seventh century. The earliest known surviving narrative of the dragon episode is an eleventh-century Georgian text.
lexicalizationeng: Saint George and the Dragon
instance of(noun) a faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus
Dragon, Draco
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Afrikaans
lexicalizationafr: Sint Joris en die draak
Russian
has glossrus: Чудо Георгия о змие — описанное в житии святого великомученика Георгия Победоносца спасение им царевны от змея (дракона), совершенное им, согласно большинству указаний, уже после смерти. Получило отражение в иконографии данного святого, став самым узнаваемым его изображением.
lexicalizationrus: Чудо Георгия о змие
Swedish
has glossswe: Sankt Göran och draken är ett berömt motiv inom konsten, där Sankt Göran enligt legenden räddade en stad, ibland även en jungfru eller prinsessa, från en hotfull drake.
lexicalizationswe: Sankt Göran och draken
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