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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).
- 18 October
- Padua, Italy
- Gospel of Luke, Acts of the Apostles
Jan 21, 2021 · The Greek guide to icon painting called “Herminia” (early 18th century, presumably based on earlier texts of the 16th century) gives a brief description of the holy apostle: “The Evangelist Luke is not old, with curly hair, a little beard, is presented writing an icon of the Holy Virgin.“. The oldest such image is a wall painting ...
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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 ...
May 5, 2009. #1. To all the church history buffs (because I don't have time to track it down for myself!): I've found it common for Eastern Orthodox (and others, sometimes) to claim that Luke created the first "icon" of Mary with Jesus. One or two articles claimed that this tradition was alluded to in some early church writings, including ...
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 ...
Oct 18, 2019 · Saint Luke, the Artist. 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. In iconography, the verb “to write” is ...
Oct 18, 2023 · In the 19th century, the famous Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote the poem Saint Luke the Painter (for a drawing). Give honor unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray. Scarcely at once she dared to rend the mist.
