It's amazing. Once you know the story, it becomes so easy to recognize it from a few clues:
![[Image: BFl18_zCUAEwEC4.jpg]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BFl18_zCUAEwEC4.jpg)
![[Image: 220px-Olympias_and_Nectanabus_conceive_A...ail%29.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Olympias_and_Nectanabus_conceive_Alexander_-_British_Library_Royal_MS_19_D_i_f4v_%28detail%29.jpg/220px-Olympias_and_Nectanabus_conceive_Alexander_-_British_Library_Royal_MS_19_D_i_f4v_%28detail%29.jpg)
It's just as easy to recognize as the stories about St. Martha and the tarasque.
And... even though they all depict the same Nectanebus, most of them do NOT include the narrow-wide-narrow form of sleeve.
And, it's interesting iconographically, because some illustrators combined Nectanebus and the dragon into one image (my impression is that this is the way things may be done in the VMS):
![[Image: 2a6647a244e35037d48dd7a98f83df66.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2a/66/47/2a6647a244e35037d48dd7a98f83df66.jpg)
It's just as easy to recognize as the stories about St. Martha and the tarasque.
And... even though they all depict the same Nectanebus, most of them do NOT include the narrow-wide-narrow form of sleeve.
And, it's interesting iconographically, because some illustrators combined Nectanebus and the dragon into one image (my impression is that this is the way things may be done in the VMS):