LUCA DIN ICLOD, UN PICTOR TRANSILVĂNEAN DIN SECOLUL AL XVII-LEA
Luca of Iclod, a Transylvanian Painter of the 17th Century

Summary/Abstract: The biographical sketch resulted from the comment of the sources and from the stylistic analysis of the kept works presents us Luca of Iclod as one of the most talented painters active in the Romanian environment from Transylvania of the second half of the 17th century, with a solid professional formation assumed very probably somewhere in the South of the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom. From his activity could have been identified, until now, with certainty, only four icons: three images of the Mother of God with Child (painted for the churches of Ilișua, Strâmba and Nicula) and one of Archangel Michael identified at Boiereni). Two have been remarked as weeping icons, one weeping even twice. The documents resulted following these miraculous events contain the only known biographical information: the residence from Iclod, the painting of the icons of Nicula and Ilișua, the quality of priest, which is yet doubtful, and the Ruthenian ethnicity, as well debatable. The exploitation of the sources through which has been submitted this information also permitted the release of the hypothesis that the painter was already dead in 1699. In Iclod only his memory is still kept, the cross attributed to him being, in fact, dated “in the year of God 1766”. The stone church, datable in the second half of the 17th century, has whitewashed walls, the only adornments being some late icons, from the 18th-19th centuries.

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