From the Uffizi three ancient dragons for ‘Lucca Comics&Games
The Gallery will take part to celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the birth of the most important fantasy role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons, by exhibiting three 16th and 17th century engravings depicting the legendary monster in a medieval church in Lucca.
Three fierce dragons to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the most culturally influential fantasy game ever, Dungeons & Dragons: the Uffizi Galleries are sending them ‘on an exhibition mission’ to this year's Lucca Comics&Games, as a symbolic tribute to the important anniversary. They are three engravings, all made between the 16th and 17th centuries by some of the greatest artists active between the 16th and 17th centuries: Cornelis Cort, from Giulio Clovio, author of St. George and the Dragon (1577); Salvator Rosa, Jason Sleeps the Dragon (1663-1664); Giovanni Battista D'Angolo known as del Moro, from Titian, Landscape with St. Theodore and the Dragon, 1560-70. The three works will be exhibited in a highly scenographic context: the medieval "Chiesa dei Servi", where the dragons of the Uffizi will be on view together with the great exhibition dedicated by ‘Lucca Comics&Games’ precisely to Dungeons and Dragons, curated by Jon Peterson and Jessica Lee Patterson Gateway to Adventure - 50 Years of D&D Art: over one hundred works of art and memorabilia linked to the fantasy imagery of the game. Dragons of the Uffizi and Gateway to Adventure will be on public view from 5 p.m. on Saturday 26 October.
Giovanni Battista D'Angolo known as del Moro, from Titian, Landscape with Saint Theodore and the Dragon, etching, 1560-70
Cornelis Cort, by Giulio Clovio, St. George and the Dragon, burin, 1577
Salvator Rosa, Jason Sleeps the Dragon, etching and drypoint, 1663-1664
