Coinciding with the feast of St. James, the Palace presents every 25th of the month a different piece dedicated to the phenomenon of St. James in the Museum of the Ways. This month it gives prominence to an anonymous panel from the church of San Rom\u00e1n de B\u00e9cares (depopulated since the mid-eighteenth century belonging to the municipality of Alija del Infantado). This piece was part of the XIV edition of Las Edades del Hombre, in 2007: “Yo Camino”, which took place in the Bas\u00edlica de la Encina and in the church of San Andr\u00e9s in Ponferrada.<\/p>\n
The panel painted in oil in the first third of the 16th century belongs to one of the four pieces that form the predella of the fragmented altarpiece that narrates scenes of Saint Roman in Cistercian habit. In pairs and in sacred conversation the apostolic college is presented to us, being this panel of “San Felipe and Santiago, apostles”, perhaps the most outstanding. <\/p>\n
The pictorial quality is remarkable, especially remarkable in the diocesan pictorial panorama of the time. Both apostles are presented half-length, leaning on the sill under a lowered arch and with a beautiful landscape that serves as a background. With a golden nimbus on which his name can be read, his identifying attributes are perfectly characterized showing Santiago, in contemporary clothing, with a shirt with puffed sleeves and a tawny-toned coleto. The saint is covered with a fine red mantle and shows in a canonical way the usual staff and pumpkin in his iconography. <\/p>\n
On his forehead, the shell can be seen with two small crossed staffs that definitively define the apostle. The use of these small bone beads, cited in comments of particular inventories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was incorporated into the pilgrim’s clothing, evoking the eventful pilgrimage to Compostela. <\/p>\n
With a narrative, detailed style and without being able to reliably relate it to any master of our environment, this painting stands out in the Provisorato room dedicated to the Jacobean theme in Gaud\u00ed’s Palace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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