Luke picture

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St. Luke paints the Holy Virgin with the Child, Master of the Holy Blood , around 1520
Luke image from the Santuario della Madonna di San Luca

As Luke image is referred to in the strict sense, a devotional image , that of the Evangelist Luke said to have been painted himself. In addition to depictions of Christ , the iconographic concept of the Hodegetria , a portrait of the Mother of God with the Child Jesus , is probably the best-known motif of this genre. According to legend, the image type originally came from a St. Luke created representation of the head of Mary with the baby Jesus, which came to Constantinople and is said to have been kept in the specially built Hodegon monastery after being reworked into a full- figure portrait .

First it was narrated that the Blessed Mother gave St. Lukas sat as a model during his lifetime (see Dobschütz 1899, Klein 1933 and others). The picture of Luke does not belong to the Acheiropoieta , but forms its own genre. Later the tradition changed that the Blessed Mother completed the picture herself, or that the Holy Spirit worked a miracle . Another tradition says that the picture was created through direct contact with the body it represented.

In a broader sense, those depictions that show the evangelists portraying the Blessed Mother are also referred to as Luke pictures, including the St. Luke Madonna by the Flemish painter Rogier van der Weyden .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Belting 1990, p. 66.

literature

  • Hans Belting : image and cult. A history of the image before the age of art . Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34367-8 .
  • Michele Bacci : Il pennello dell'Evangelista. Storia delle immagini sacre attribuite a san Luca . ETS, Pisa 1998
  • Ernst von Dobschütz : Images of Christ. Research on the Christian legend . 2 volumes. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1899.
  • Clemens M. Henze: Luke the Mother of God painter. A contribution to the knowledge of the Christian Orient . Bibliotheca Alfonsiana, Leuven 1948.
  • Dorothee Klein: St. Luke as the painter of Maria. Iconography of the Madonna of St. Luke . Schloss, Berlin 1933, (also: Hamburg, Phil. Diss. 1933).
  • Joseph Sauer : The oldest images of Christ . Wasmuth, Berlin 1920 ( Wasmuths Kunsthefte 7).
  • Nikolaus Thon : Icon and Liturgy . Paulinus-Verlag, Trier 1979, ISBN 3-7902-1403-5 ( Sophia 19).

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