Today, 18 October, is the feast of ...
Luke, evangelist: Mentions 6 miracles and 18 parables not referred to in
the other gospels - patron of physicians, surgeons and painters of
pictures.
Two year's ago in regard to Luke this interesting exchange took place:
I have seen a few attribuitions of paintings, usually icons of Mary, to
Luke. Is there any list of these attributions?
tom izbicki
Dear Tom
I have written a book on the subject, which is forthcoming in the GISEM/
Pisa University series (the title is 'Il pennello dell'evangelista.
Storia delle immagini sacre attribuite a san Luca', i. e. 'The
Evangelist's pencil. The history of sacred images attributed to St.
Luke'), but I wasn't able to have a complete list of the images
attributed to Luke, since their number is really too high and difficult
to calculate. Also by analyzing their history, from the first
attribution in Constantinople (the Hodigitria icon) up to the
end of the 18th century, this strange phaenomenon of attribution was
widespread throughout the Christian world: I have found icons by Luke's
hand in Greece, Turkey, Russia, Serbia, Cyprus, Syria, Armenia, Egypt,
Ethiopia, Italy, Bohemia, Germany, Poland, Belgium, France, and Spain.
Their diffusion was due both to cultic and devotional causes and to the
particular interest of the church and the power. The question is too
difficult to summarize here; however, I have already tried to outline
the history of attributions of images to the Evangelist in an article
entitled 'Appunti sulla nascita, moltiplicazione e decadenza delle
immagini di culto attribuite a san Luca pittore', in "Bollettino
d'arte", 6th ser., 88 (1994), pp. 73-92.
Michele Bacci
Scuola Normale Superiore
Pisa (Italy)
Thanks Tom and Michele for that helpful discussion!
Justus of Beauvais, martyr (?): Beheaded as a youth; after the
execution, his headless body stood up and proclaimed, '... I am
sinless'; holding his head in his hands, he directed his father and
brother to bury his body in a cave, and to take the head home to his
mother (a conversation piece?) - widespread medieval cult in
northwestern Europe.
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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