This painted wood sculpture depicts Saint George, the patron saint of England and Ethiopia.  He holds a lance over the dragon at his feet, slain for terrorizing the town of Silene, Libya. This figure, along with the neighboring sculpture of Saint Florian, was originally a symbolic guardian of a monumental altarpiece in early 16th-century Bavaria.  It seems fitting that Isabella placed the two saints at the formal entrance of the museum to supervise the passageway.