ABSTRACT
The icon of St George was bought by the Benaki Museum in June 1986 thanks to a donation from the A.G. Leventis Foundation. The icon of St George bearing the artist’s signature must be dated to the first half of the fifteenth century. Though the cuirass worn by St George in the Benaki Museum icon may be reminiscent of the one the saint is shown wearing on the Bologna polyptych, it is even closer to the type worn there by the Archangel Michael – a representation in which St George’s red cloak knotted over the chest also appears. It is probable that an icon of a mounted St George killing the dragon in the Old Museum of Zakynthos, which was destroyed in a fire in 1953, was connected with Angelos’ workshop.
