The ancient tradition is that St Luke knew the Blessed Virgin and used her as a source for his gospel. This painting illustrates the tradition. I like the two people on the bridge over the canal in the background.
St Luke
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Related to this, there is a traditional understanding, in the Christian East, that Luke was the first ikonographer and so made the first ikon of our Blessed Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary.
If you look at a blow-up of this picture, on the extreme right beneath the open book is a bull’s head, the bull being St Luke’s attribute.