Object Description
412 Series: THE SAINTS
C. SAINTS ACISCLUS AND VICTORIA (?)
The two saints stand on a patterned floor with a step behind them and to the left. Heavily draped and wearing laurel crowns and halos, each holds a palm in his right hand and a book in his left, Victoria on the left and Acisclus on the right. Between them above, rays breaking through clouds.
Bronze, gilt, chased, 102 x 71 mm. Molded border with ring at top.
The initials G. L., which appear on the steps in the specimen presently in Basel at the Historisches Museum, are missing here. Braun believed that the figures were of two male saints, namely Gervasius and Protasius. Based on the attributes, the two would have to be the brother and sister, Acisclus and Victoria, the patron saints of Cordoba, which would indicate a Spanish origin (cf. the sculptures of the saints in the middle field of the main altar of the Church of Lanciego: Georg Weise, Die Plastik der Renaissance und des Fruehbarock im nordlichen Spanien, II, Tubingen 1959, pp. 56-60, pl. 116).
Bibl.: Braun-Span., p. 18, no. 9, pl. 6, 1; Weber, no. 1043, 3.
