
Detail of a dragon wounded by St George. Held on a line by a Princess it had captured. In this oil on canvas by Paolo Uccello, painted around 1460, the dragon, a mythical beast has been challenged after capturing a towns people including the Kings daughter.
As I’m doing my report I am noticing different things. In this case, the dragon only has two legs, and its leathery wings have white circles on them like a butterfly or moth. The long curling tail seems to balance its head and body. This dragon is more birdlike than serpentine. It could also resemble a dinosaur, perhaps a pterodactyl even though Uccello would probably not have seen fossilised bones. But in one of those strange coincidences this could be a type of evolution. An artist expressing a current idea that will eventually change to more modern forms of dragon.
Uccello means bird in Italian 🙂
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I didn’t know that! I know it was his nickname but can’t remember his real one
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I wonder if there were a couple of dinosaurs still left.
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Lol, maybe the bones? Fossils in America and China… Seeing a huge skull and not knowing the flesh had gone millions of years ago… Or winged skeletons in China. Fancy stumbling across one of them?
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