the singing of the Sirens epoxy

St. George is killing the Dragon

St. George is killing the Dragon
acrylic, epoxy, colored embossed aluminum, pen
acrylic gems

wikipedia:
Saint George and the dragon

The episode of St George and the Dragon was a legend[24] brought back with the Crusaders and retold with the courtly appurtenances belonging to the genre of Romance. The earliest known depiction of the legend is from early eleventh-century Cappadocia, (in the iconography of the Eastern Orthodox Church, George had been depicted as a soldier since at least the seventh century); the earliest known surviving narrative text is an eleventh-century Georgian text.

In the fully developed Western version, which developed as part of the Golden Legend, a dragon or Crocodile makes its nest at the spring that provides water for the city of "Silene" (perhaps modern Cyrene) in Libya or the city of Lydda, depending on the source. Consequently, the citizens have to dislodge the dragon from its nest for a time, to collect water. To do so, each day they offer the dragon at first a sheep, and if no sheep can be found, then a maiden must go instead of the sheep. The victim is chosen by drawing lots. One day, this happens to be the princess. The monarch begs for her life to be spared, but to no avail. She is offered to the dragon, but there appears Saint George on his travels. He faces the dragon, protects himself with the sign of the cross,[25] slays the dragon, and rescues the princess. The grateful citizens abandon their ancestral paganism and convert to Christianity.

The dragon motif was first combined with the standardised Passio Georgii in Vincent of Beauvais' encyclopedic Speculum historale and then in Jacobus de Voragine, Golden Legend, which guaranteed its popularity in the later Middle Ages as a literary and pictorial subject.

The parallels with Perseus and Andromeda are inescapable. In the allegorical reading, the dragon embodies a suppressed pagan cult.[26] The story has other roots that predate Christianity. Examples such as Sabazios, the sky father, who was usually depicted riding on horseback, and Zeus's defeat of Typhon the Titan in Greek mythology, along with examples from Germanic and Vedic traditions, have led a number of historians, such as Loomis, to suggest that George is a Christianized version of older deities in Indo-European culture.

In the medieval romances, the lance with which St George slew the dragon was called Ascalon, named after the city of Ashkelon in Israel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George

colors of the night - music and paintings

colors of the night by wschweizer

  

the aureate heart of the night

  

oriental night

new epoxy paintings

night crowd

wings of the night

Auf den Flügeln der Nacht

Auf den Flügeln der Nacht
reise ich
in die Magie des Loslassens
und werde
durch die Phantasie
an die Ufer der Leben getragen,
jenseits von dem Heute,
dem Jetzt, dem Irgendwo,
an denen sich eine Seele,
die das Tatsächliche
nicht mehr spüren möchte,
erholen kann.

Flora von Bistram, 2007
http://www.nachtfluege.de/



on the wings of the night
I am traveling
into the magic of letting go
and I am carried by imagination
to the shores of the lives
beyond today,
now, somewhere

where a soul, that doesn`t want to be faced with reality anymore,
can recreate.

translated by myself
better translations welcome!

more colors of the night paintings

 

the original drawing "colors of the night" was done 2007 with pens on paper. Now I made another version using a print of the older one as background. The painting was done with acrylic colors, gel pens and ink pens. Other materials: layers of epoxy resin, embossed aluminum and colored aluminum

letter size

the original of this painting was also done 2007. materials now: print, acrylic, pens, embossed aluminum and colored aluminum, Swarovski crystals, onyx, layers of epoxy resin