Treasure | MUSEUM CATHEDRAL OF SANTIAGO. Santiago de Compostela

Cross with pearls

Description Attributed to Paris, Ca. 1380-1400. Gold and gilded silver, enamels, pearls, and gemstones. Due to its stylistic characteristics, it is believed to have been created in a Parisian workshop in the last decades of the 14th century, and its presence in the...

Processional Monstrance

Description Santiago de Compostela, Antonio de Arfe, 1539-1545 and 1573. Gilded silver As it was the case of other Spanish cathedrals, in 1539 the Cabildo gave the prestigious Arfe workshop in Valladolid the task to create a monumental monstrance, for which purpose...

Saint james the Moor-Slayer of the Duchess of Aveiro

Description Attributed to Rome, Ca. 1677. Cast silver, embossed and incised The representations of the legendary appearance of Saint James in the Battle of Clavijo were highly developed in the Baroque period, mainly in the Compostela cathedral. However, this piece was...

Saint James the Pilgrim

Saint James the Pilgrim Description Santiago de Compostela, Enrique Mayer, 1919. Jet and silver. This delicate image of Saint James the Pilgrim is a recreation in jet of the stone sculpture relocated in the lower body of the Clock Tower, along with other images, and...