St. George and the Dragon

…produced his major sculptural group, “St. George and the Dragon,” in Stockholm in 1489. Other documented works include the high altar at Tallinn (1482), the high altar at Århus, Den. (1479), and the “Triumphal Cross” in the Cathedral of Lübeck (1477).

…by Notke’s monumental group of St. George and the Dragon at St. Nicholas’ Church, Stockholm, where the dragon’s spines are made from real antlers. The group as a whole is, of course, of wood, a medium that could be employed to create intricate, open, thin, and spiky forms impossible in…