Saints James and Philip

Artist Master of the Last Judgment (Spanish, active first half of 12th century)

Place of OriginCatalonia, Spain

Dateabout 1125

Dimensions55 1/4 × 33 in. (140.3 × 83.8 cm)
Frame: 56 1/4 × 34 3/8 × 2 in. (142.9 × 87.3 × 5.1 cm)

Mediumfresco mounted on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1956.16

Not on View

Collections

Paintings

Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 107, pl. 45.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, July-Sept. 1960," Art Quarterly, vol. XXIII, Winter 1960, p. 398, repr. p. 401.

"Bibliografia," Archivo Espanol de Arte, no. 136, 1961, p. 363, repr. page facing p. 364.

Rogers, Millard F., "La pintura española en el Museo de Toledo (Ohio)," Goya numero 49, Julio-Agosto, 1962, p. 28, repr. p. 28.

Rogers, Millard F., "Spanish Art," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 10, no. 2, Summer 1967, p. 42, repr.

Capolavori dal Museo d'Arte della Catalogna, Rome, 1990, p. 22.

Putney, Richard H., Medieval Art, Medieval People: The Cloister Gallery of the Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 2002, p. 18, repr. (col.) fig. 9.

Label TextThe fresco of Saints James and Philip probably comes from the Romanesque church of Sant Iscle and Santa Victoria in Surp, Spain. Saint James, son of Alphaeus, shared the same Feast Day in the Catholic tradition as Saint Philip, likely the reason they are paired here.