Guglielmo Caccia Known As Il Moncalvo (Montabone 1568 - Moncalvo 1625) Saint George Oil on canvas, cm 196 x 133 SOLD "The beautiful unpublished painting studied here, in excellent condition, depicts Saint George of Cappadocia on horseback while sheathing his sword, with the dying dragon on the ground, almost trampled by the white steed. A smiling angel is about to place a crown on the saint's head, while in the background, on the left, the painter has depicted his martyrdom, suffered according to hagiography with the cutting of his head after a very harsh series of tortures and torments of all kinds. These are actually events lacking certain documentation, but developed on the basis of a long and varied popular tradition summarized in the Passio Sancti Georgii, a text declared apocryphal by Pope Gelasius in 496. It should be noted that the figure of the princess freed by the saint is absent." (Expertise by Alberto Cottino) - Giamblanco Gallery Catalog "Twenty-five years of activity", edited by Deborah Lentini and Salvatore Giamblanco, Allemandi, Turin, 2019, pp 16 -17