Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 6 minutes):Guillaume Dufay: Ave, maris stella, hymn for the feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Rogier created another great work during his early period in Brussels, roughly between the middle of the 1430s and the beginning of the 1440s: the painting of St Luke Drawing a Portrait of the Virgin, known as the St Luke Madonna. St Luke the Evangelist was also the first Christian painter, and had painted the Virgin Mary from life. As a consequence he was the patron saint of painters, and in many towns and cities was regarded as patron of their guilds. As a result, most of the major pictures of St Luke were destined for the altars of these communities; Rogier's painting was probably an altarpiece for the Brussels guild.
There exist several examples of this composition, identical apart from a few details, of which the one in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, since its restoration in 1932-33, is regarded by most art historians as the original (other examples in Munich, Alte Pinakothek, St Petersburg, Hermitage, and Bruges, Groeninge Museum).
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Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 6 minutes): Guillaume Dufay: Ave, maris stella, hymn for the feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary |
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| Summary of works by Rogier van der Weyden |
| Altarpieces |
| Deposition | St Luke Madonna | Annunciation | Miraflores |
| 7 Sacraments | Crucifixion | Bladelin (Middelburg) | Beaune |
| Braque | St Columba | St John | Various altarpieces |
| Portraits |
| Portrait diptychs | Individual portraits |
| Single panels |
| Pietŕs | Various | Fragments, copies of last works |
| Graphics |
