A Renaissance St. James as pilgrim 

Great sculpture! I once wrote a paper on the tomb and it was unfortunate that the statue was removed.

Wow 🤩. Everything about this is so well done. The commentary, the video the explanation of the Camino. Thanks

No accolades will ever be enough for you! God bless you! Love AL. The Camino has always been on my bucket list but unfortunately My age and cowardice got ahead of me!

Great work as always. It was really edifying as I thought he did look quite peculiar at the beginning with his hat and shells. Quite adorable that the pilgrims were given cockle-shells like that. Very sweet.

Yay! Santiago!

So beautiful, thank you

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Thank you for this detailed description (political, artistic, and historic context) of this alabaster statue. Smarthistory highlights the 'cockles' that the artist added to the cloak, hat, and satchel of this pilgrim-saint. Being from Florida, they look like scallop shells to me. And, in fact, according to wikipedia, 'cockle shells lack "auricles" (triangular ear-shaped protrusions near the hinge line).' Am I mistaken or did Gil de Siloé take artistic license - or perhaps even he was confused about the two different species?

I love the name "The Cloisters" and wonder where that came from... It's easy to see why Gil was considered the best at what he did - this is incredible. Saint John's hair alone is beautifully depicted, but there's something to see the entire sculpture. I just got out of a sermon emphasizing the use (and potential) of hands, so the positioning of his are particularly interesting to me at the moment. The Santiago animation was great. 😂❤ I'm curious what the cockle shells were for! Perhaps just a badge of some kind, I'm guessing... Good stuff as always!

truly beautiful!! I wonder how it must’ve looked with the gold leaf fully intact

That was great. Can you talk about the alter piece at the monastery behind the sculpture? That is amazing too.

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Interesting. Unfortunately there weren't four ways in France during the medieval pilgrimage of Santiago. It's history error to say that ... it come from the Calixtinus Book, which spoke of four ways, but it's symbolics road, not a guide book. The historians of the 20th believed it was real ...

According to the speakers, we know *exactly* where this statue was originally located. With the modern recognition of art theft by American robber-barons beginning in the 1800s of European sculptures, paintings, etc, is there any discussion of returning this sculpture to Spain?

This video is nice but what characterizes the piece as Renaissance? Seems Late Gothic to me and in fact really doesn't seem to have any Renaissance elements, so why call it Renaissance? Because we need to fit it into a more popular style than gothic? Gil de Siloé came out of the Late Gothic tradition. So yeah just a little confused with why it's called Renaissance

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