# The Fight with the Dragon \(detail\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [ROMANESQUE PAINTER, Italian](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1>)
- Date: 1051-1100
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

The wall and vault frescoes in the former Benedictine monastery church in Lombardy, on the slopes of Monte Pedale overlooking Lake Como, were executed by five different artists or workshops at the end of the eleventh century. The frescoes, among the most superb decorations in early Romanesque painting, combines Ottoman elements with remnants of an ancient Roman illusionism, Byzantine formulae, and clearly Romanesque compositional principles.

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- [Angel of the Last Judgment](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/angel-of-the-last-judgment-r7ab1d329d9bb9d>)
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- [Betrayal of Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/betrayal-of-christ-rd6d0f7d5cfd0ce>)
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- [Frescoes in the crypt](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/frescoes-in-the-crypt-rc26a60c757f47d>)
- [Last Judgment \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/last-judgment-detail-r316bba35ee9490>)
- [Last Judgment](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/last-judgment-rcf74eed8147b24>)
- [Last Supper](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/last-supper-ra2a57097eb7cd8>)

## Attribution

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