Processional Monstrance
Description Santiago de Compostela, Antonio de Arfe, 1539-1545 and 1573. Gilded silver As it was the case of other Spanish cathedrals, in 1539 the Cabildo gave the prestigious Arfe workshop in Valladolid the task to create a monumental monstrance, for which purpose...
Reliquary bust of Santa Florina
Reliquary bust of Santa Florina Description Santiago de Compostela, Jorge Cedeira the Younger, 1594. Silver, gilded silver and enamels In 1543, the Compostela Archbishop Gaspar de Ávalos accompanied King Charles I on his journey through Italy and Germany to pursue...
Saint james the Moor-Slayer of the Duchess of Aveiro
Description Attributed to Rome, Ca. 1677. Cast silver, embossed and incised The representations of the legendary appearance of Saint James in the Battle of Clavijo were highly developed in the Baroque period, mainly in the Compostela cathedral. However, this piece was...
Saint James the Pilgrim
Saint James the Pilgrim Description Santiago de Compostela, Enrique Mayer, 1919. Jet and silver. This delicate image of Saint James the Pilgrim is a recreation in jet of the stone sculpture relocated in the lower body of the Clock Tower, along with other images, and...