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Title

Apostle Saint James

sculptor

Siloé, Gil de [workshop of] (Burgos. Active 1480-1500)

Generic classification
Sculpture
Object
Sculpture
Date
ca. 1500
Century
Late 15th c. / Early 16th c.
Cultural context / style
Late Middle Ages. Gothic
Dimensions
29 x 9 11/16 x 7 1/4 in.
Material
Alabaster
Technique
Sculpted
Iconography / Theme
Apóstol, Santiago
Provenance
Nuestra Señora del Fresdelval Monastery, Burgos (Fresdelval, Burgos, Spain)
Current location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States)
Inventory Number in Current Collection
16.32.153
Object history

According to Gómez Bárcena's studies, and to the information gathered by  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this sculpture "came from the tomb of Juan de Padilla, near Burgos... was one of seven original statues that adorned the summit of the wall tomb of Juan de Padilla"; passed thorough Georges Hoentschel (French interior designer) before finding its way to the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (London and New York) and from there to its present location. The tomb of Juan de Padilla was in the monastery of Fresdelval (Burgos) is the work of the school/workshop of Gil de Siloe. Images of the tomb are preserved, such as the Prado Museum's print of the tomb, based on a drawing by Francisco Aznar García from around 1864. The monastery had suffered considerable deteriotation since the beginning of the 19th century, firt due to the French occupation and the War of Independence, when the monastery was sacked , and the due to the disentailment policies and their consequences, which only increased its ruin. The funerary complex of Juan de Padilla is now preserved in the Museum of Burgos. 

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Bibliography
  • GÓMEZ BÁRCENA, María Jesús (1988): Escultura gótica funeraria en Burgos, Excma. Diputación Provincial, Burgos, p. 162.
  • GÓMEZ BÁRCENA, María Jesús (1990): "Un Santo Tomás de Gil de Siloé", vol. 63, nº 249, en Archivo Español de Arte, pp. 94-96, il. 11.
  • WETHEY, Harold E. (1936): Gil de Siloe and His School: A Study of Late Gothic Sculpture in Burgos, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 66-67, il. 44.
Citation:

María José Martínez Ruiz, "Apostle Saint James" in Nostra et Mundi. Cultural Heritage from Castile and Leon around the world, Fundación Castilla y León, 2025. https://inventario.nostraetmundi.com/en/work/109

Saint James

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public Domain

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Sepulchre of Don Juan de Padilla. Photo: 1865. Archive /Library of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid.

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