St. Luke and St. Mark with a Portrait of the Virgin and Child / Ludolphe Buesinck
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2007/2.144
- Title
- St. Luke and St. Mark with a Portrait of the Virgin and Child
- Artist
- Ludolphe Buesinck
- Artist Nationality
- German
- Artist Life Dates
- c.1590-after 1643
- Medium and Support
- chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Île-de-France (region)
- Ville de Paris, Département de (department)
- Paris (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Île-de-France (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Ville de Paris, Département de (department)
- Creation Place 5
- Paris (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- Gift of J. Frederick Hoffman
- Style/Group/Movement
- Baroque
- Period
- Europe, Baroque (1590-1750)
- Dimensions
- 26.8 cm x 34.3 cm (10 9/16 in. x 13 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- chiaroscuro woodcut
- Physical Description
- Two seated men, depicted in three-quarter length, with flowing beards and long robes look out from this print. A painting of a seated woman holding a child on her lap sits on an easel between them. A closed book is placed before the man on the left, and a second book sits open next to the figure on the right. This man holds a mahlstick, used by painters to steady their hand as they work, in his right hand. A palette and brushes are placed on a ledge in front of him.
- Subject Matter
- This chiaroscuro woodcut represents St. Mark and St. Luke, each presenting the works in which they relate their eyewitness experiences of Christ. Both saints wrote gospel accounts, portrayed in the print by the closed book that sits before St. Mark on the left and the open book next to St. Luke. According to a famous apocryphal legend, St. Luke was an artist as well as an author, whose most important painting was a portrait of Mary and her newborn. In the print, Luke has just set aside his palette and brushes on the ledge before him and gestures toward his finished masterpiece.
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3096 x 2433
- File Size
- 550 KB
- Record
- 2007/2.144
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"St. Luke and St. Mark with a Portrait of the Virgin and Child; Ludolphe Buesinck." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2007-sl-2.144/2007_2.144.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.