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Description: | According to legend, whilst on a pilgrimage from Toulouse to Compostella, a young man was found guilty of theft and hanged. His distraught parents prayed to St James of Compostella to save him, but continued on their journey. On passing the site of the hanging on their return, they were incredulous to find their son alive and well, saved, as he claimed, by St James and the Virgin Mary supporting the weight of his body. In this representation of the miracle by the Netherlandish artist Bouts, the saint is shown with his traditional symbols of a staff, purse and scallop shell. The detailed landscape background is typical of Netherlandish painting of this time. | Subjects: | religion (Miracle of the Gallows); figure; landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bouts, Dieric (Flemish painter, ca. 1415-1475) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8647... | Go to resource |
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