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Saint James the Greater
c. 1636–1638 · Oil on canvas · The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
For Saint James · 25 July
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A staff, and nothing else. Guido Reni gives Saint James no shell, only the pilgrim's staff laid across his gold cloak, and turns his face upward with the hands joined. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston reads the parted hair and beard as Christ's own: James was one of the three who saw that face shine on the mountain, and he wears it. The Prado's entry calls the Houston canvas the original of the Duke of Alcalá's Apostles, painted in Rome for the family pantheon at the Cartuja de las Cuevas in Seville. Benito Navarrete Prieto argues that the related canvas in the Prado is no Reni but a copy by Zurbarán, made around 1650-55 after he saw the duke's series in Seville. The fisherman who mended nets is looking up, and the staff is for a road.
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)