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Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, by Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1435–40, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. 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.
The van der Weyden panel is among the first known depictions of St Luke painting the Virgin in Northern Renaissance art, [54] along with a similar work, a lost triptych panel by Robert Campin. [25] Van der Weyden presents a humanised Virgin and Child, as suggested by the realistic contemporary surroundings, [ 53 ] the lack of halos, and the ...
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.
Jan Gossaert, St. Luke Painting the Madonna (c. 1520–1525), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, c. 1435–1440. 137.5 x 110.8cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This was the classic subject for paintings given to the guilds
The painting shows St. Luke sitting at a desk reading with an ox at his elbow. [1] This painting was documented in the 18th century but was considered lost until the 1950s, when two tronies were discovered languishing in the storerooms of the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art in 1958 by art historian Irina Linnik.
St. Luke is the patron saint of the painters' guild and is often depicted as the painter of the Virgin Mary. His attributes include a winged bull, a pen and a book or scroll. Theodoric was the head of the painters' guild in Prague from about the mid 1360s and his painting of St
Adam and Eve and St. Luke painting the Likeness of the Virgin and Child in presence of a poet crowned with ivy leaves, and a parrot in a cage – an altar-piece in the gallery of Haarlem, and the Ecce Homo in the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, are characteristic works of the period preceding van Heemskerck's visit to Italy. [4]
Saint Luke Painting the Crucifixion (c. 1650) by Francisco de Zurbarán. Saint Luke Painting the Crucifixion is an oil on canvas painting by Francisco de Zurbarán, executed c. 1650, also known as Crucifixion with Saint Luke or The Crucified Christ with a Painter. [1] It is now in the Prado Museum. The figure of Saint Luke is thought to be a ...