New! Nuns Walking in a Cloister Garden in Rome – Singing the Hours – Jørgen Sonn – Beautiful Catholic Art – Archival Quality

If you’ve ever wanted to spend some time in a cloistered garden, or if you would enjoy re-experiencing a time when you did, this painting by Jørgen Sonn will help give you a view into that world. Four nuns are walking in a peaceful, secluded garden a little ways from their convent home. I think they are singing the divine office, because one has an open breviary, and another has a lute. One nun has heard a noise in the woods, which gives a little dramatic lift to the moment.

Jørgen Valentine Sonne (Danish,1801–1890) was a Danish painter known for his serene, romantic scenes, occasionally religious but often simply rural, a range of tranquil settings with people walking to church or admiring a sunset or similar simple pleasures. The phrase art historians use for that is “genre painting.” Like many artists of his generation, he spent some years in Italy making sketches. Wren he returned to his home in 1841, he spent the rest of his career making paintings – such as this one – based on those Italian sketches. (source: Wikipedia)

According to Rick Yoder of the Amish Catholic webpage, Jorgen Sonne has, “whether intentionally or not, given the nuns the habit of Port-Royal-des-Champs,” who are Cistercian nuns. Painted in 1866. Oil on canvas. 84 x 94 cm. Sold at auction in 2010 for approximately $7500 to a private collection. (source: invaluable.com)

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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.

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– Acid-free paper

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– 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!

+JMJ+

Sue & John

Lincoln, Nebraska

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

~ St. Pope John Paul II

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