Juan Martínez Montañes (sculptor) and Francisco Pacheco (polychromy), St. Joachim

1628-31
Seville Cathedral

The staff and characteristically bifurcated beard are common in portraits of St. Joachim, although the beard is more often white. The lamb also appears sometimes, in reference to the time he spent in the mountains with his flocks.

View this image in full resolution.
Read more about St. Joachim.

• Home Page
• Iconography of St. Joachim
• This Page

Photographed at the cathedral by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.