How does this artwork elucidate its Iconography?
In the painting the princess represents the church as a whole, and the terrified lamb to whom she offers refuge represents the innocence and purity of Jesus Christ, the "Lamb of God", and Saint George and his steed symbolize the triumph of good over evil as Saint George prepares to strike the beast from “on high”. Saint George's right foot prominently highlighted above the dragon signifies that the dragon (darkness, devil, evil) is in every way beneath Saint George and the light that envelops him and the princess. In opposition, the dragon's form resembles a serpent, rather than the typical lizard, or dinosaur-like depiction of dragons, an allusion to the biblical account of Adam and Eve, wherein Satan takes the form of a serpent.
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