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On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Michele Bacci wrote: > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 11:24:49 +0100 (BST) > From: Michele Bacci <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: FEAST 18 October > > At 17.24 18/10/97, you wrote: > > >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) I look forward to the seeing the book. tmi> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%