19^th century, circa: 1870s - 1900 years.
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RUSSIAN  IMPERIAL  LARGE OIL PAINTING, UNIQUE ARTISTIC ARTWORK PAINTING, ROYAL ICON 
BLESSED SAINTS HOLY  St. LUKE .   //   measures:  41.5 inches  x 29 inches
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“EVANGELIST,  St. LUKE ”  from  ROYAL IMPERIAL RUSSIA
HUGE ICON !!!  -   St. Luke  SUPERB PAINTING
He became a follower after the Lord’s death, when Paul taught him the gospel. 
Magnificent!    Antique Icon!    //  OLD LARGE OIL PAINTING   Icon on Canvas, FRAMED.  
ICON  in life is more beautiful than in pictures

Dimensions Inch (approx.):  41.50 Inch height   x  29,00 Inch in width  x  1.50 Inch in thickness
Dimensions centimeters (approx.):  105 cm height   x  74 cm in width  x  4 cm in thickness
Material:  Super Oil Painting on Canvas. Fabulous  ICON !!!   

Important Russian LARGE ICON Painting on Canvas Showing  An antique Russian Style Icon "Evangelist, St Luke" (Luke is an interesting writer because he did not know Jesus Christ personally. He became a follower after the Lord’s death, when Paul taught him the gospel), painting offers oil on canvas depiction of Saint Luke with his bull, framed.  19^th century.  Measures – overall:  41.5''h x 29''w  x  1.5''d;   sight: 25.25''  x  37.5''   Saint Luke painting the Evangelist St Luke the Apostle, (Luka, signed by Old Slavic), is a devotional subject in art showing Luke the Evangelist painting the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus. Such paintings were often created during the Renaissance for chapels of Saint Luke in European churches, and frequently recall the composition of the Salus Populi Romani, an icon based on the legend of Luke's portrait of Mary. Versions of the subject were sometimes painted as the masterpiece that many guilds required an artist to submit before receiving the title of master.

Luke is an interesting writer because he did not know Jesus Christ personally.
He became a follower after the Lord’s death, when Paul taught him the gospel. 
Luke had been a physician, but he left that profession to travel with Paul. He had the opportunity to talk with many of the Apostles as well as others who were eyewitnesses to special events or moments in the Lord’s life. In the first few verses of his book, Luke says that he is going to write the things that eyewitnesses and other teachers of the gospel had to say about the Savior. Apparently he had the opportunity to talk to many who were present when the Savior taught or performed miracles.

One of the most amazing stories Luke wrote about was the birth of the Savior. Elder Bruce R. McConkie (1915–85) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles says that Luke probably got his information about Jesus’s birth from Mary herself.  Who were the other people Luke interviewed about Jesus Christ? The list would have been long. Many of the people who knew the Savior would still have been alive and would have remembered such important times in their lives. Paul mentions that about 500 people saw the Savior after His Resurrection and that most of them were still alive when he was writing to the Corinthians (see 1 Corinthians 15:6).

Who Was Saint Luke?   Most of what we know about Luke comes from his own writings and a handful of mentions in Paul’s letters. Some details of his life are ambiguous, and scholars debate what we can really gather from the limited evidence we have.  Saint Luke, also known as Luke the Evangelist, is widely regarded as the author of both the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts. He wrote more of the New Testament than anyone else—even the Apostle Paul.  Luke wasn’t an eyewitness to Jesus’ ministry, but he lived during the first century, and according to his own writings, he “carefully investigated everything from the beginning” (Luke 1:1–4). As a traveling companion of Paul, he also likely had direct access to the apostles and other accounts of Jesus’ life and ministry (such as the Gospel of Mark).

While he was presumably educated as a physician (Colossians 4:14), today Luke is celebrated as one of the church’s earliest historians. His methodical, detailed writings give us the only thorough record of what happened after Jesus ascended to heaven. Without his account in Acts, it would be hard to imagine how Christianity grew from a small, fragile movement within Judaism to what would eventually become the largest religion in the world.
So who was “Luke the Evangelist”? What do we really know about him? Can we trust him? In this guide, we’ll explore what the Bible says about him and how we know what he wrote, and we’ll answer important questions about his authority and reliability.
How the Evangelist Luke draws pictures with words, Did Luke really paint a painting of Our Lady ?  Legend has it that this is historically unlikely. But Luke is still an artist: with a narrative eye, he turns his Gospel into a picture of words.  Nevertheless, from the first centuries there is a legend that Luke was not only a doctor, but also an artist, and therefore was honored to capture the Virgin Mary in a painting. Today, of course, they are convinced that this assumption has its place in the realm of legends. However, characterizing Lucas as an artist is not so absurd.

Luke's Gospel stories are characterized by high density of detail and accurate observation. Much of what is only hinted at in other Gospels or not mentioned at all is described in great detail by Luke. This includes, first of all, the story of childhood:  St. Luke not only begins with the appearance of the adult Jesus (like Mark and John), but with great attention to detail, he describes the main lines of the prehistory, starting with the proclamation of the birth of Jesus Christ. John the Baptist before the image of twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple. All this is missing from Mark and John, Matthew reports it in elementary form. It seems that Luke could not stop and wrote his Gospel with great zeal and enthusiasm. Luke is an author who takes pleasure in writing the biography of Jesus of Nazareth in such a way that he not only communicates it, but also wants to captivate the reader with his essay. Luke's gospel could have inspired and entertained a particularly ancient reader. The various episodes from the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles are not boring; rather, they stimulate the imagination and encourage you to continue reading the work. Thus, Lucas is also the writer of his time.

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