Bernardino Lanino, The Beheading of St. George

Circa 1546
Fresco
Basilica of St. Ambrose, Milan

From his exalted throne, the prefect Dacian orders the beheading of St. George. In the Golden Legend the saint had changed his military dress for that of "a Christian man" well before his martyrdom, but in this painting he is clad in armor from shoulder to toe, just like the pagan soldiers in attendance. As in the painting on the facing wall, George's shield has a generic design rather than the more traditional red cross on a white field.

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Photographed at the basilica by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.