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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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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. The composition is built from the geometric shapes that form the lines of the woman's veil , neckline, face, and arms, and by the fall of the light that illuminates her face and headdress.
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.
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]
The Miraflores Altarpiece (or Triptych of the Virgin, or The Altar of Our Lady or the Mary Altarpiece) is a c. 1442-5 oil-on-oak wood panel altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin since 1850. [1] [2] The altarpiece examines Mary's relationship with Christ at different stages of his life.
The drawing is worked in silverpoint on ivory-coloured prepared paper. On the reverse is a 17th-century (or possibly earlier) inscription "Ruggero di Bruselle/1460" (i.e. "Roger of Brussels 1460"), which suggests it was already connected with van der Weyden from an early date. The workmanship is of top quality, the modelling subtly worked to ...