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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
Today we celebrate one of the world’s most revered icons of the Mother of God—the Vladimir icon. 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 · 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, 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.
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 ...
Oct 18, 2019 · Saint Luke, the Artist. Fr. Michael Cummins. October 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.
Mar 22, 2024 · St. Luke (flourished 1st century ce; feast day October 18) was, in Christian tradition, the author of the Gospel According to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, a companion of St. Paul the Apostle, and the most literary of the New Testament writers. Information about his life is scanty. Tradition based on references in the Pauline Letters has ...
