A pale-skinned man sitting hunched over as he draws on a tablet and a bull lying at his feet fill this vertical painting. The man faces our right in profile, and he looks down at the book. He has a lined forehead, a bumped nose, and wrinkles around his nose. He has lanky, chin-length hair and a curly, unruly beard. He sits with one leg pulled up so he can partially brace the tablet on that knee. He holds the inkwell and clutches the top of the tablet with one hand and draws using a feather quill with the other. His other leg stretches down, and the ball of the bare foot is perched against…
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Saint Luke

Giorgio Vasari (Florentine, 1511 - 1574)

1570-1571

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 177.8 × 99.1 cm (70 × 39 in.)
Culture
Italian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Gift of Damon Mezzacappa in Loving Memory of Elizabeth Mezzacappa
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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