N a relief from the tomb of the Blessed Albert of Pontida (Fig. 2) which Professor Arthur Kingsley Porter1 found in the sacristy of San Giacomo, Albert's old Cluniac priory, at Pontida, near Bergamo,2 occurs a significant subject, the identification of which is the starting point of this study in iconography. The relief represents St. James Major as the lord of the dead, a rare aspect of his cult except upon the pilgrimage-road to Compostella. Iconographically it is, so far as I know, unique. He is the rider on the white horse of the Fourth Miracle (dated 1080, but written c. 1130), who carried the living and the dead. Professor Porter wished to date the relief shortly after 1095: I am not quite sure for my part that it should not be put later, at any rate after the death of another Piedmontese saint, the Blessed Albert of Vercelli, who had been on the pilgrimage to St. James, who died in the Holy Land in 1214, and who came to be associated with Elijah and the Carmelite order and revered even by Mohammeda...