Лука, пишущий икону Богоматерь, или Богоматерь св. Луки {4152} St Luke painting the icon of the Virgin, or St Luke Madonna
история:
St Luke was the patron saint of painters, and this altarpiece, a masterpiece of 15th-century painting, may have been made for the chapel of the painters’ guild in Brussels.
Rogier van der Weyden made at least three full-size copies of this original version, evidence of the high regard in which the composition was held in its own time.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lee Higginson (1893).
автор:
Вейден Р. ван дер
Rogier van der Weyden
перемещение:
Брюссель: часовня (~1435 - )
Brussels: chapel of the painters’ guild
Бостон: МИИ (1893 )
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts
композиция:
Богородица и Младенец со св. Лукой
Virgin and Child with St Luke
композиция:
Богородица кормит Младенца, сидит слева.
Справа изображён Лука, рисующий Младенца.
It was once popularly believed that St Luke was the first to record the Virgin’s likeness, and here the saint reverently makes a preliminary drawing for his portrait of Her.
Among the meticulously rendered, real-world details, the enclosed garden beyond the room symbolizes the Virgin’s purity, the couple gazing out at a river and a Flemish town may represent the Virgin’s parents, and tiny carvings of Adam and Eve on Maria’s throne allude to Christ and His Mother as the new Adam and Eve, come to redeem mankind from original sin.
