Over the years, the five great paintings by Vasco Fernandes for the chapels of the Viseu Cathedral have been the object of services strictly in the field of format and iconographical analysis. However, in our opinion, what was lacking was an iconological interpretation, which is the aim of our proposal. We will base our interpretation on analogous situations and examples, aiming to discover the single connectivity thread which links the five “Pale” painted by Vasco Fernandes, under the patronage of D. Miguel da Silva