Sacred Art & Iconography
St Simon (Victoria and Albert Museum, A.157-1922)
Alabaster panel, England, 1440 to 1460, part of a Zamora apostle set, Victoria and Albert Museum A.157-1922
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A carved, painted and gilt alabaster panel, England, 1440 to 1460, part of a twelve panel apostle set said to have come from Zamora, Spain, showing a haloed figure holding a small boat and a scroll reading "Remissione peccator," titled by the museum St Simon. Held today by the Victoria and Albert Museum under museum number A.157-1922, given by Art Fund.
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Depicted SubjectHis scroll reads "Remissione peccator[um]," the forgiveness of sins, the ninth article in the medieval scheme that paired each of the twelve apostles with one clause of the Apostles' Creed, a legend traced to medieval sermon literature rather than to scripture itself and used across English devotional art of the period as a teaching device. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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The museum's own title reads St Simon directly. The boat this panel carries sits within the documented Simon the Zealot attribute list (boat, saw, fish, lance, oar) the corroborating Wikipedia record names, though it is not his single most distinctive emblem, the saw of his martyrdom.
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