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Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin is a large oil and tempera on oak panel painting, usually dated between 1435 and 1440, attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden. Housed in the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston , it shows Luke the Evangelist , patron saint of artists, sketching the Virgin Mary as she nurses the Child Jesus .
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.
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Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of a Lady, c. 1460, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 34 × 25.5 cm (13 × 10 in). Portrait of a Lady (or Portrait of a Woman) is a small oil-on-oak panel painting executed around 1460 by the Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden.
Virgin and Child in a Niche, the so-called Durán Madonna, Madrid, Museo del Prado, inv. nr. 2722. 100 × 52 cm. Portrait of a Woman (sometimes considered as the portrait of van der Weyden's wife Elisabeth Goffaert), Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, inv. nr. 545 D. 47 × 32 cm. Annunciation Triptych.
Van der Weyden. London: Chaucer Press. ISBN 1-904449-24-7. Grössinger, Christa (1997). Picturing women in late Medieval and Renaissance art. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-4109-0. Kemperdick, Stephan (2006). The Early Portrait, from the Collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein and the Kunstmuseum Basel. Munich: Prestel.
In many cities the Guild of Saint Luke financed a chapel that was decorated with an altarpiece of their patron saint. [25] Rogier van der Weyden's Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, c. 1435-1440 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), one of the earliest-known paintings, set up a tradition that was followed by many subsequent artists. [25]
Imaginative portrait by Cornelis Cort, 1572. Rogier van der Weyden (Dutch: [roːˈɣiːr vɑn dər ˈʋɛidə(n)]; 1399 or 1400 – 18 June 1464), initially known as Roger de le Pasture (French: [ʁɔʒe d(ə) la pastyʁ]), was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits.