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About Gary Vikan
Gary Vikan, director of the Walters Art Museum since 1994, has been with the Baltimore institution for more than 20 years. A native of Minnesota, Gary received his B.A. from Carleton College in 1967 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1976 before working as Senior Associate for Byzantine Art Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.
An internationally known medieval art scholar, Gary has curated many significant exhibitions at the Walters, and has published and lectured on the early Christian pilgrimage, medicine and magic, icons, the Shroud of Turin, neuroscience and aesthetics, and Elvis Presley. His most recent book, Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art, will be published in 2010 by Dumbarton Oaks; he is currently working on a book-length study titled Pilgrimage to Graceland.
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Rogier van der Weyden, “[Self Portrait as] Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin”
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Thanks to my friend Maya!
St. Luke Drawing a Portrait of the Madonna, by Rogier van der Weyden, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
van der Weyden, St. Luke making a silverpoint of the Madonna – in the Boston MFA!
Not sure if there is any rule against submitting more than one entry but I figured, since I think I caught my mistake, I would try again.
Rogier van der Weyden
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
It’s by Rogier van der Weyden and it’s at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Mass.