page_title: Saint Luke painting the Virgin
hierarchical_section_title: Saint Luke painting the Virgin
caption_attribution_description: Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, Boston Museum of Fine Arts. 137.5CM x 110.8cm (54 1/8in x 43 5/8in)
context_page_description: Saint Luke painting the Virgin, 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 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. Versions of the subject were sometimes painted as the masterpiece that many guilds required an artist to submit before receiving the title of master.
context_section_description: Saint Luke painting the Virgin, (Lukas-Madonna in German or Dutch), 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 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. Versions of the subject were sometimes painted as the masterpiece that many guilds required an artist to submit before receiving the title of master.
caption: Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, by Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1435-40, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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