Saint Luke the Evangelist
- Author, school, workshop
- Georg Zeller
- Style
- Early Baroque
- Date
- 1662–1665
- Material and technique
- Oak wood; carving techniques
- Size
- Height 110 cm
- Location
- The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Wroclaw, Poland
- Description
- The saint stands upright with his head turned slightly to the right. With the fingers of her left hand, bent at the elbow and raised, she presses the book against her hip so that the obverse of its facing (with linear mirror decoration and visible scrolls of the spine) is exposed. His right hand extends downwards along his torso.
He has a young face with a large nose, wide-set eyes under gentle arches of the eyebrows, full lips and a prominent chin with a hollow; a high forehead, smoothly combed hair above it on the sides arranged in curls reaching the neck. Ankle-length robe with a collar and long sleeves with rolled-up cuffs. Wrapped in a tightly folded toga covering the left arm, thrown over the right hand and falling behind it along the torso, cascading down the front and hung by a sash at hip level.
Between the saint's bare feet protrudes from under the robe the head of a bull with long horns, a large left ear, deep nostrils and a wrinkled jowl.
