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This clean horizontal gallery photograph highlights the iconic 16th-century French Renaissance marble bas-relief masterpiece "Saint Georges et le dragon" (Saint George and the Dragon), cataloged under inventory number MR 1595 at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Commissioned in 1508 by Cardinal Georges d'Amboise to decorate the high altar of the upper chapel at his luxurious Château de Gaillon in Normandy, this major historical panel was executed in 1509 by the legendary late-medieval French sculptor Michel Colombe. The highly dynamic narrative composition illustrates the Christian warrior knight Saint George clad in armor and charging on his rearing warhorse, plunging his heavy lance directly into the jaws of a ferocious, scaled dragon. In the background left corner, the saved Princess Cleodolinda is masterfully carved kneeling in devout prayer on a rocky outcrop next to miniature castle towers and deeply pocketed forest foliage. Shot under uniform museum gallery illumination, the image preserves the exquisite translucent grains, micro-fissures, and intricate tool textures of the Carrara marble stone. This high-density stock image is an exceptional asset for European history textbooks, academic literature analyzing early modern French art, publications exploring the transition from Late Gothic to Renaissance aesthetics, or Parisian cultural travel brochures.