03 — ARTWORK
St Luke
- MEDIUM
- Oil on panel, 75 x 75 cm
- TYPE
- Religious
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COMMENTARY
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Pordenone specialized in depicting powerfully built, often ungainly figures in dramatic movement, and seen foreshortened from below. He found the fullest scope for this specialism in the decoration of ceilings and domes. The panelTerm in painting for a support of wood, metal, or other rigid substance, as distinct from canvas. Until the adoption of canvas in the 15th century nearly all the movable paintings of Europe were executed on wood, and even up to the beginning of the 17th century it is probable that as much painting was done on the one support as on the other. Painters who worked on a small scale often used copper panels (Elsheimer is a leading example), and in the colonial art of South America copper and tin and even lead and zinc were used. On a larger scale, slate has occasionally been used as a support, notably by Rubens for his altarpiece for Sta Maria in Vallicella (the Chiesa Nuova) in Rome; the picture he originally painted was said to reflect the light unpleasantly and slate was used for the replacement to produce a more matt finish. For wood panels the Italian masters of the Renaissance preferred white poplar, while oak was the most common wood used in northern Europe. Many other types were used, however; analysis of the contents of art galleries has yielded a long list, including beech, cedar, chestnut, fir, larch, linden, mahogany, olive, and walnut. In the 20th century cedar, teak, and dark walnut are favourites, and modern painters have also used plywood, fibre-board, and other synthetic materials as supports., showing the Evangelist St Luke with his customary attributeA symbolic object which is conventionally used to identify a particular person, usually a saint. In the case of martyrs, it is usually the nature of their martyrdom. of a bull (or ox), was also painted for a Venetian ceiling, namely for the ceiling in the Scuola dii San Francesco ai Frari. The ceiling was dismantled in 1733.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {St Luke by PORDENONE},
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date = {2026-09-13},
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}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.