High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saint Luke painting the Virgin, (Lukas-Madonna in German or Dutch), is a devotional subject in art showing Saint Luke painting the Virgin Mary with the Baby Jesus. Such paintings were often painted for chapels of Saint Luke in European churches during the Renaissance, and often include the pose of the Salus Populi Romani, based on the legend of Luke's portrait of Mary. Versions of the subject were sometimes painted as the masterpiece, in the original sense, that many guilds required an artist to submit before becoming a master.