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- Tradition has it that this icon, which is now preserved in a church attached to the Tretyakov Art Gallery in Moscow, was originally painted by the holy Apostle Luke, to whom the Most Holy Theotokos entrusted the production of her image for the support of the faithful.
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Oct 18, 2017 · He is held by the Eastern Church as the original “iconographer,” responsible for writing the first icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Many painters throughout the centuries have depicted this ...
The legend of Saint Luke as the author of the first Christian icons had been developed in Byzantium during the Iconoclastic Controversy, as attested by 8th century sources. By the 11th century , a number of images started being attributed to his authorship and venerated as authentic portraits of Christ and the Virgin Mary. [1]
Archimandrite Job (Gumerov) of Sretensky Monastery talks about the icons painted by St. Luke. Vladimir icon of the Mother of God. The holy Church from antiquity preserves the tradition that the apostle Luke the Evangelist was the first person to paint an icon of the Mother of God.
Luke the Evangelist painting the first icon of the Virgin Mary Christian tradition, starting from the 8th century, states that Luke was the first icon painter. He is said to have painted pictures of the Virgin Mary and Child, in particular the Hodegetria image in Constantinople (now lost).
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- Gospel of Luke, Acts of the Apostles
Oct 18, 2023 · St. Luke Paints the Icon of the Mother of God Hodegetria, 14th century, Icon Museum Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany. Of the Evangelist and Apostle Luke all his contemporaries said that with his own hands he painted both Christ the Incarnated himself and his purest Mother, and their images are preserved in Rome, so it is said, with great ...
The S. Maria Maggiore icon was almost surely made in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century. That it greatly postdated any work ever painted by Saint Luke did not diminish it—it commanded the same authority as his original. In fact, copies of the venerated images “by Luke” proliferated.
Jun 17, 2011 · Answer: This question came to me from a local woman. I had heard of the legend of Mary’s portrait, but never fully investigated it. The story goes that the evangelist Luke, in addition to...
