# Beheading of St George

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## Artwork

- Artist: [SCHUT, Cornelis I](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/schut-cornelis-i-rb584761899bc53>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 380 x 295 cm

## Commentary

In 1643 the guild of Jonge Voetboog started a competition between Thomas Willeboirts and Cornelis Schut to paint an altarpiece for their altar in the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk in Antwerp. The guild chose Schut&#39;s work. Schut depicted the subject, the Beheading of St George, with remarkable foreshortening and in a flickering light. The heightened emotionalism he was able to produce with this deeply personal style also made Schut much in demand as an interpreter of the themes of the Counter-Reformation outside Antwerp.

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- [Rape of Europa](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/schut-cornelis-i-rb584761899bc53/rape-of-europa-rbe3a9e418ffd43>)
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## Attribution

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