New! After the Baptism – Hubert Salentin – Beautiful Catholic Art

After the baptism, a family comes out of the chapel with their newly baptized baby in a white veiled carrying basket. The baby is holy. We had our priest one time say that people should kneel before a newly-baptized baby, as the baby is the perfect repository of the Holy Spirit that he or she has just been Christened with.

Hubert Salentin (1822-1910) has a great personal story. He had been a German blacksmith for fourteen years, but then in his early middle age, he went back to art school. He was good at it. He became a gentleman and a popular painter of the Dusseldorf school. He mainly painted portraits and what they call genre paintings, i.e., scenes from rural German life, including scenes of people's Catholic lives, such as this baptism. We have several of his paintings in our shop. They are all charming and carefully done, and all show a warmth and a sympathy with the people he painted. He had been one of them, prior to becoming fancy, and evidently his heart remained with them.

** IMPORTANT ** THE IMAGE IS SMALLER THAN THE PAPER! There is a blank border around the image. Approximately 0.5" wide for 5x7, 1.3" for 8.5x11, 1.6" for 11x14, and 1.75" for 13x17 and 16x20. For the two poster sizes, 18x24 and 24x36, we use 0.5" borders. We do this because the ratio of the rectangle of the art almost never matches the rectangle of the paper, and if it did happen to match one size, it would not match the others. Most fine art printers do this because otherwise they’d have to crop the art or warp it to make it fit the paper. The border looks good. It gives the picture a faux matted appearance.

There is almost always a little more border either on the left-right sides, or the top-bottom, depending on whether the ratio of the art is wider or taller than the paper.

We make Archival Quality fine art prints:

– Acid-free paper

– Archival pigments

– Cardboard backer for sizes 11x14 and less.

– Above story of the art

– Enclosed in a tight-fitting, crystal-clear bag.

– Rated to last 200+ years without fading if kept dry and out of the direct sun.

Thanks for your interest in our Catholic art!

+JMJ+

Sue & John

Lincoln, Nebraska

“In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art.”

~ Pope St. John Paul II

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