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Jan 21, 2021 · Ancient church writers report that St Luke […] was the first to use paint to create an image of the Most Holy Theotokos holding the Infant Jesus Christ in her arms. After that he painted two more icons of the Most Pure Lady and brought them to Her. Upon seeing the apostle’s works, the Mother of God said: “May the grace of Him who was born ...
Oct 18, 2017 · Photo Credit Robert Drózd CC via Wikipedia. A popular account relates how in the 4th century St. Helena discovered an image of the Virgin Mary that was painted by St. Luke on a tabletop made by ...
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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).
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. Such paintings were often created during the Renaissance for chapels of ...
Throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance, painters’ guilds across Europe were commonly named after the evangelist Saint Luke: in Rome, for example, the guild was called the Compagnia di San Luca. This custom grew out of a tradition that the evangelist had painted the Virgin and infant Jesus from life. Images associated with Saint Luke had ...
The ancient tradition that says that the holy Evangelist Luke painted this icon of the Mother of God goes back as far as the eighth century. According to the Lives of saints, this testimony was cited by Patriarch Germanos, in an epistle to Constantine Copronimos attributed to St. John Damascene, and in an epistle of the patriarch to Emperor ...
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 ...
