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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 .
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.
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.
The best known of these, and the most commonly credited in the West, was Saint Luke, who was long believed to have had the Virgin Mary sit for her portrait, but in the East a number of other figures were believed by many to have created images, including narrative ones. Saint Peter was said to have "illustrated his own account of the ...
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The traditional symbols of the Evangelists were often included in the images, or especially in the Insular tradition, either given their own additional images on a separate page, or used instead of an evangelist portrait. The symbols are: the Lion of Mark, the Eagle of John, the Ox or Calf of Luke and the Angel or Man of Matthew.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 17:31, 8 October 2012: 1,000 × 1,300 (463 KB): Otto Negron {{subst:Upload marker added by en.wp UW}} {{Information |Description = {{en|Painting by El Greco,it is held by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana.