Nun Praying in Church – "On Good Friday" – Olga Boznańska – Catholic Art – Catholic Gift – Archival Quality Our Lady of Grace and Light of men and women

of men and women

The basilica was begun in 1629 by King Louis XIII

we are very fond of it

Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864) came from a family of painters

I was not ever thus

Nun Praying in Church – "On Good Friday" – Olga Boznańska – Catholic Art – Catholic Gift – Archival Quality Our Lady of Grace and Light of men and womenOlga Boznanska (1865 1940) was a Polish painter at the turn of the last century who was famous for her portraits. It had been hard for to get training in art as a woman, but she persevered. There is a curious connection in the title of this piece to "Vows of the sculptor Tola Certowiczwna." We aren't scholars enough to research this, but Certowiczwna was a woman sculptor a generation older than Boznanska who had had some real challenges pursuing her