A close up of the end of the spear - which is piercing the dragon, Raphael even gives us a bit of blood around the entry point. If you now go back to #1 you might see the impossible spear that goes back in space behind St George and goes into the dragon below the horses feet.We must see either that the dragon is very much closer to us than the horse or, a very bent spear. The beauty for me is that I see both possibilities depending on how I read the painting. If I am looking close, piece by piece especially in the area of the dragon, then I feel the spear is going into the dragon which is under the horses feet. If I stand back I see the picture as a unity and the spear as one straight line. The next two are representations of possible planes generated by the geometry.(-> #7)
