Saint George And The Princess (Cicognara)
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''Saint George and the Princess'' is a late 15th century tempera on panel painting, attributed to
Antonio Cicognara Antonio Cicognara (1480 – after 1500), was a 15th-century Italy, Italian painter. Biography Little more is known of him than that he was birth, born in Cremona and death, died in Ferrara.Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia. It was originally in the church of San Giorgio and as such the commission is thought to have been from the Franciscans who then occupied the adjoining monastery.Passamani, p. 22 In 1797 the city's monasteries were suppressed by the Brescian Republic and San Giorgio's artworks were looted and dispersed within the city - most of them went to the city's Diocesan Museum, though ''Saint George'' entered its present collection in the 19th century.


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* Bruno Passamani, ''Guida della Pinacoteca Tosio-Martinengo di Brescia'', Grafo, Brescia 1988 Paintings in the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo category:Paintings of Saint George (martyr) category:15th-century paintings {{15C-painting-stub