Saint James the Greater
The original, as its museum records it
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About this painting
The staff is the only thing Reni gives him — no shell, no other emblem, only the pilgrim's mark. The museum reads the parted hair as Christ's own: James, one of three who saw that face shine at the Transfiguration, wears it.
He was painted in Rome for the Duke of Alcalá's chapel pantheon at the Cartuja de las Cuevas monastery in Seville, one of a set of apostles. One scholar argues a Sevillian hand later copied him, around 1650-55, after seeing the duke's apostle series in Seville — that copy, not this canvas, now hangs in Madrid's Prado.
Sources: MFAH object page, emuseum.mfah.org/objects/48081 · Museo Nacional del Prado, object entry, Santiago el Mayor, inv. P000212 · Benito Navarrete Prieto, "Reni y España," Archivo Español de Arte 97/386 (2024) · Matthew 17:1-2, Douay-Rheims (Challoner).
And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets: and he called them.
Matthew 4:21 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 8,161 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.