The Miracles of Saint James the Greater
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 102 × 80.7 cm · framed: 129.5 × 107.5 × 10.5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Felix Wildenstein
Accession Number
1929.96
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
Noël Nicolas Coypel combined two stories associated with Saint James the Greater, one of the twelve apostles of Christ. In the foreground is the magician Hermogenes, begging forgiveness. Hermogenes had cast a spell on James, but the saint turned the curse back on him. When James offered to protect Hermogenes against the demons assaulting him, the magician cast aside his pagan texts in favor of Christianity. According to the second legend, James miraculously cured a paralytic man (in the middle g...