This lecture discusses the two most important New Testament Jameses primarily through the lens of their respective iconographies, featuring especially Styrian examples. Iconographically speaking James son of Zebedee is by far the more popular of the two James due to his association with the famous pilgrim road to Santiago de Compostela, which led to his being depicted as the romantic figure of the ideal pilgrim. In contrast, the iconography of James the brother of Jesus is more complex due to his being treated as the same person as James son of Alphaeus in the Roman Catholic West. In the Eastern Church this identification between the two figures is not made, leaving them with two separate iconographies, one for James the brother of Jesus (Adelphotheos) and another for James the son of Alphaeus.
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