{"id":3679,"date":"2015-02-02T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2015-02-02T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T17:54:23","slug":"sylum-inspiration-st-george-raphael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-inspiration-st-george-raphael\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylum Inspiration: St George (Raphael)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Raphael_-_Saint_George_Fighting_the_Dragon-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3680\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-inspiration-st-george-raphael\/raphael_-_saint_george_fighting_the_dragon-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Raphael_-_Saint_George_Fighting_the_Dragon-1.jpg?fit=523%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"523,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Raphael_-_Saint_George_Fighting_the_Dragon (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Raphael_-_Saint_George_Fighting_the_Dragon-1.jpg?fit=523%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3680\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Raphael_-_Saint_George_Fighting_the_Dragon-1.jpg?resize=523%2C600\" alt=\"Raphael_-_Saint_George_Fighting_the_Dragon (1)\" width=\"523\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Raphael_-_Saint_George_Fighting_the_Dragon-1.jpg?w=523&amp;ssl=1 523w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Raphael_-_Saint_George_Fighting_the_Dragon-1.jpg?resize=131%2C150&amp;ssl=1 131w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Raphael_-_Saint_George_Fighting_the_Dragon-1.jpg?resize=349%2C400&amp;ssl=1 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>St. George<\/strong> painted by Raphael located at the Louvre in Paris.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In Sylum Neal Caffrey is Raphael. \u00a0So the irony in the stories is that Neal stole his own painting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">St. George is the Patron Saint of England.  He&#8217;s mostly depicted as\u00a0an English Knight\u00a0taking on a dragon (Draco the Dragon doesn&#8217;t find the painting very pleasing).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Irony &#8211; St. George is Roman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nico finds this hilarious and calls every St. George&#8217;s Day to remind Arthur that England&#8217;s\u00a0Patron Saint is in fact Roman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are actually two paintings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>St. George and the Dragon<\/strong> by Raphael located at the National Art Gallery in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saint_george_raphael.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3678\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-inspiration-st-george-raphael\/saint_george_raphael\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saint_george_raphael.jpg?fit=788%2C1036&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"788,1036\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Saint_george_raphael\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saint_george_raphael.jpg?fit=608%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3678\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saint_george_raphael-608x800.jpg?resize=608%2C800\" alt=\"Saint_george_raphael\" width=\"608\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saint_george_raphael.jpg?resize=608%2C800&amp;ssl=1 608w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saint_george_raphael.jpg?resize=114%2C150&amp;ssl=1 114w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saint_george_raphael.jpg?resize=304%2C400&amp;ssl=1 304w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Saint_george_raphael.jpg?w=788&amp;ssl=1 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. George painted by Raphael located at the Louvre in Paris. In Sylum Neal Caffrey is Raphael. \u00a0So the irony in the stories is that Neal stole his own painting. St. George is the Patron Saint of England. He&#8217;s mostly depicted as\u00a0an English Knight\u00a0taking on a dragon (Draco the Dragon &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[447],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sylum-information","tag-inspiration-block"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Da1M-Xl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8035,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/new-fic-by-bj-jones-the-intercession-of-st-michael\/","url_meta":{"origin":3679,"position":0},"title":"New Fic by Bj Jones: The Intercession of St. Michael","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"June 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Title: The Intercession of St. Michael Author: Bj Jones Rating: Nc-17 Fandom: Person of Interest (Harold\/John) Author\u2019s Note:\u00a0This is from a series of daily writings I did on my tumblr called: Afternoon Fic. 2nd Author's Note: This story is about Archangels, Angels & Demons, along with Catholicism. \u00a0The Catholic Saints\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sylum Information&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sylum Information","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/category\/sylum-information\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StMichael.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":21165,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-inspiration-drogo\/","url_meta":{"origin":3679,"position":1},"title":"Sylum Inspiration: Drogo","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"July 31, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Drogo is hidden away at Masyaf.\u00a0 \u00a0He\u2019s the largest of all the Dragons, bigger than Draco. 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