LUCA di LEYDA – Self-portrait – Brunswig, Museum.
of Commodilla near Rome, where the Saint has his head surrounded by a halo bearing his name; he is depicted there in a white tunic with a scroll and a bag containing surgical instruments. In the 12th century he is depicted in the mosaics of the Palatine Chapel in Palermo and in the 13th century in those of the apse of the Basilica of S. Paolo fuori le mura in Rome, where he stands among the four Saints surrounding Christ’s throne. Among the fifteenth-century representations of s. L., the statue in Florence Cathedral, a masterpiece by Nanni di Banco, and the tempera panel by Benedetto Bonfigli in the Pinacoteca of Perugia, in which the Saint is writing his Gospel, are noteworthy. - Vedi tav. CXI.