St. Luke and St. Mark with a Portrait of the Virgin and Child / Ludolphe Buesinck

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Accession Number
2007/2.144
Title
St. Luke and St. Mark with a Portrait of the Virgin and Child
Artist Nationality
German
Artist Life Dates
c.1590-after 1643
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 5
Paris (inhabited place)
Style/Group/Movement
Baroque
Dimensions
26.8 cm x 34.3 cm (10 9/16 in. x 13 1/2 in.)
Century
17th century
Primary Object Classification
Print
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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Image Size
3096 x 2433
File Size
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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 March 19, 2024.
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