Notke, Bernt – Equestrian statues https://equestrianstatue.org by Kees van Tilburg Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:09:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.11 Saint George https://equestrianstatue.org/george-saint-19/ Wed, 18 May 2016 15:23:09 +0000 http://equestrianstatue.org/george-saint-19/ To commemorate the victory at Brunkeberg, Sten Sture (see there) ordered a wooden monument for Storkyrkan in Stockholm, Saint George and the Dragon, built in the late 1480s. Saint George’s horse carries Sten Sture’s coat of arms, and the monument is therefore interpreted as a symbol of his victory over Denmark, the dragon. A bronze copy … Continue reading "Saint George"

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