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- According to tradition St. Luke was a very talented young man. He not only wrote a Gospel account and the Acts of the Apostles, he was also a Greek physician and an icon artist. He is held by the Eastern Church as the original “iconographer,” responsible for writing the first icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Oct 18, 2017 · Philip Kosloski - published on 10/18/17 - updated on 08/07/23. Various traditions claim the Gospel writer drew one or more icon portraits of the Virgin Mary from life. According to tradition St....
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Indeed, the information that St Luke was an icon painter does not appear anywhere in the Holy Scriptures. From St Paul’s epistle to the Colossians, we learn only that Luke had mastered the art of healing. The fact that the Apostle Luke was also a painter is known to us only from Sacred Tradition. The life of the evangelist written by St Dimitry of ...
The absence of any mention of St Luke’s icons by the fathers at the seventh Ecumenical Council is considered a serious argument against their real existence. The exact reason for that is, unfortunately, unknown, but there are two possible versions. According to one, the council was held at a time when the holy apostle’s icon was no longer in Consta...
The earliest surviving historical document that mentions the Holy Apostle Luke as an icon painter dates back to the beginning of the 6th century. In this document, the historian Theodorus Lector (Anagnostes) reports that the widow Empress Aelia Eudocia sent “the greatest relic”, the image of the Mother of God, written by the Evangelist Luke, from P...
Images of St Luke, as well as other evangelists, have been spread for a long time. However, depicting the apostle as an icon painter, either in mural painting, miniatures or icons, is not met until much later (around the 14th century, based on the surviving samples). The Greek guide to icon painting called “Herminia” (early 18th century, presumably...
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 icon based on the legend of Luke's portrait of Mary.
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).
Around the twelfth century one icon in particular came to be identified with Luke’s image: a half-length portrait of Mary holding the child and pointing toward him as the way of salvation. Known as the Hodegetria—she who points the way—the original icon was taken in the fifth century to the Byzantine capital, Constantinople , and ...
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.
Legend has it that St Luke the Evangelist painted a miraculous portrait of the Virgin Mary. For this reason he is the patron saint of painters, and images of him often adorned chapels held by...
