This piece reveals many features identifying it as the work of Gil Eanes: the size, the disproportion between the legs and the torso, the figure’s affected movement enlivened by such delicate decorative details as the headpiece, belt and borders imitating textiles of the period. This image came from the church of St. michael in Montemor-o-Velho, possibly having been commissioned by Prince D. Pedro, a known devotee of the archangel. It depicts a typical characteristic of traditional Portuguese iconography of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, the combination of two themes in one figure: the piercing of the dragon and the bringing of men’s souls to judgement. Throughout the Middle Ages there was a prolonged and fervent cult devoted to the Archangel known as the victoriosus.