New! The Flight into Egypt – John Roddam Spencer Stanhope – Beautiful Catholic Artwork – Archival Quality

One of our favorite topics for Catholic art is the rest on the way to Egypt. It may concur with our general, aging need for rest, but we like to think it is because we love the events of the Holy Family and like to imagine ourselves being with them.

Luckily for us, this is one of the favorite subjects of the Old Masters. The artist of this beauty was a Pre-Raphaelite fan of the Old Masters, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (1829-1908), a close friend of Edward Burne-Jones. A so-called "second wave" Pre-Raphaelite, he painted this one in the matter of a Florentine Renaissance painters. He died in Florence after a long life and a long art career. He taught his niece to paint, Evelyn De Morgan, and we include a few of her works in this shop.

In this painting, Mary is shown in her traditional colors of a Marian blue dress and a red cloak, the red being the color of our life’s blood, as well as the color of the Passion, which she endured as a deeply sympathetic mother watching her Son on the Cross. (source: victorianweb.org)

** 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!

+JMJ+

Sue & John Johnson

St. Mary's, Lincoln, Nebraska

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

~ St. Pope John Paul II

Original image is out-of-copyright. Descriptive text and any image alterations (hence the whole new image) © by Sue Kouma Johnson – CatholicArtAndJewelry.com