Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Saint Luke painting the Virgin (German and Dutch: Lukas-Madonna) is a devotional subject in art showing Luke the Evangelist painting the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus. Such paintings were often created during the Renaissance for chapels of Saint Luke in European churches, and frequently recall the composition of the Salus Populi Romani , an ...
Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin is a large oil and tempera on oak panel painting, usually dated between 1435 and 1440, attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden. Housed in the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston , it shows Luke the Evangelist , patron saint of artists, sketching the Virgin Mary as she nurses the Child Jesus .
It is now part of the St. Vitus Cathedral Treasure. The first depictions of St. Luke date back to the 8th century (Codex Aureus of Lorsch). In the 13th century, Cimabue painted a fresco of St. Luke in the upper church of Assisi. Later he was the subject of many famous painters (Correggio, Frans Hals, El Greco, Titian, Guercino, Luca Giordano).
Winged altar of the Guild of Saint Luke, by Hermen Rode, Lübeck (1484) In traditional depictions, such as paintings, evangelist portraits, and church mosaics, Saint Luke is often accompanied by an ox or bull, usually having wings. The ox is mentioned in both Ezechiel 1:10 and Revelation 4:7.
The inscription shows that Heemskerck painted the painting as much for his colleagues in the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke as for the memory of St. Luke. The various disciplines reflected in the guild at that time were painting, sculpture, pottery, wood carving, gold- and silversmith work, painting supplies, and the arts of draughtsmanship, perspective drawing, engraving and painting itself.
Saint Luke Painting the Virgin (Giordano) H. St Luke (Hals) J. The Four Evangelists (Jordaens) M. Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria; S.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
The image is one of the so-called "Luke images" believed to have been painted from real life by Saint Luke himself. According to the legend: After the Crucifixion, when Our Lady moved to the home of John the Apostle, she took with her a few personal belongings – among which was a table built by the Redeemer in the workshop of Saint Joseph.