New! Maternity – Edmund Blair Leighton – Catholic Art Print – Archival Quality Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):11x14 Gold Frame For just as the Father

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life

with two branches conjoining into one

(source: heiligenblut

white border around the picture

she opened it to reveal a miraculous bounty of roses

New! Maternity – Edmund Blair Leighton – Catholic Art Print – Archival Quality Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):11x14 Gold Frame For just as the FatherEdmund Blair Leighton (1853 1922) was an English painter of surpassing clarity and precision. We carry several of his works in our shop, and they are among the most beautiful paintings we offer. This one, called "Maternity," shows two women in a convent. The seated mother, holding her baby, and the nun saying her breviary, lifting an eye to the baby. It's kind of a complex psychology, in a way. In another way, everybody likes babies! At least every