Focus on Saint George Killing the Dragon and analyze the History.
The painting was likely commissioned by the Catalonian government as an altarpiece for the Chapel of St. George, in the Government Palace of Catalonia in Barcelona. The four side-panels that would likely have also been fixed to the altar, depict the martyrdom of St. George, and are currently on display in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The painting was most probably painted some time between 1434 and 1435.Starting in 1867, the painting changed hands numerous times until it was eventually sold to Charles Deering in 1917. In 1921, the painting was loaned to the Art Institute of Chicago by Deering. Then, in 1924, the painting went to Deering's daughters, Marion Deering-McCormick and Barbara Deering-Danielson, who donated the work to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1933.
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