# The Vanquished Dragon

In this iconography, the Dragon represents Satan, the enemy of God, who is depicted as defeated at the end of time.

The capital shows a scene described in the Book of Revelation, where the archangel repels the beast's mouth with his shield and pierces it with a lance.

This is a representation that is quite faithful to a tradition that was already standardized in the 12th century and remains vivid up to the contemporary period.