New! Three Marys at the Tomb – by Peter von Cornelius – Catholic Gift – Archival Quality

We really liked the look of this version of the three Marys; something about the arrangement of the colors and figures, and that mix of modern and medieval, that catches our eye. In the Gospels, the three Marys are the first ones to go to Jesus’s tomb. They were told by the angel, “You seek Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him.” (Mark 16:6)

Peter von Cornelius (1783–1867) was a German painter, one of the main artists of the Nazarene Movement, a group of German artists who wanted to restore Christian spirituality in painting. They used Catholic art from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and brought it into the styles and high skill level of the 19th Century.

Cornelius grew up in art. His father was the director of the Dusseldorf Gallery, but he died in 1899. Cornelius, then a teen-ager, was able to make enough money painting portraits and doing illustrations to support his mother and siblings. As a devout Catholic, he faced the situation prayerfully. Two decades later, after training in Rome, he was made director of the same gallery, and some years after that, he became director of Academy of Fine Arts at Berlin. (source: newadvent.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

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 – Classic Catholic Art.