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A sixth-century legend presents Luke as the painter of a number of icons of the Virgin. He is therefore given the status of the painter "par excellence", able to capture even the Virgin on canvas. Luke has been the patron of various painters' guilds since the fifteenth century.
Some scholars assume that the face of Luke is a self-portrait of the artist. There are a few versions of this painting the most significants being in Boston and Munich.
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