Since St George has galloped back onto the list recently, perhaps I
could ask once again if anyone knows of sources for the original
importation of the cult of St George into western Europe. My own
interest concerns two images in Chartres Cathedral, one in the
stained glass of the nave clerestory of c.1210 and the other sculpted
on the south transept porch in c.1225-30. Stylistically, I am tending to
see both of them as inspired by Byzantine models.
Jim Bugslag
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