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Oct 18, 2017 · 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.
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.
Oct 18, 2023 · For centuries, the legend of Saint Luke, painter of the Virgin have inspired countless artists. Today, Saint Luke is their patron saint.
Although he is often shown painting the Virgin Mary, it is more likely that Luke was a doctor rather than an artist. Saint Luke is associated with Mary because it is only in his gospel that important events in her life, such as the Annunciation, are described.
Oct 18, 2019 · St. Luke is known as a fellow worker with St. Paul, an evangelist (the author of the Gospel that bears his name and the Acts of the Apostles) and a physician. For iconographers, St. Luke is revered as the first (according to tradition) to write an icon of the Blessed Mother.
Since Luke purportedly painted from life the image that became the prototype for later representations of the Virgin and Child, he was the patron saint of painters and painters’ guilds.
