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Visions of Grace. The Legend of Saint Luke and Raphael's Dream

The first part of the paper attempts to clarify the relationship between, on the one side, gesturing and the touch of hands, and, on the other side, the action of divine grace. This relationship is studied on the basis of Renaissance pictorial representations of the legend of Saint Luke painting the Virgin Mary. The second part examines a popular legend among the German and Russian Romantics, according to which the Virgin appeared to Raphael in a dream. It was only after this miraculous vision that Raphael, like a second Luke, was able to paint his graceful Madonnas. Given the profound similarities of the two legends, the conclusion attempts a comparison between Luke and Rapahel.

Grace; Raphael; Sistine Madonna; Saint Luke

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