"Monk at Prayer" – J. Ferrer y Pallejà – Meditative Room Art – Beautiful Catholic Art – Catholic Gift – Archival Quality Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):5x7 Black Frame " I still believe it

" I still believe it

Celine said

it’s kind of a solemn pun on the verb Fall

taken from Luke's Gospel

We have never seen the idea of "garlanding" like this in a painting before

"Monk at Prayer" – J. Ferrer y Pallejà – Meditative Room Art – Beautiful Catholic Art – Catholic Gift – Archival Quality Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):5x7 Black Frame " I still believe itThis calm scene, for us anyway, when we meditate on it, gives us calm. The friar is praying the rosary. It is early dawn or dusk. The water is utterly placid. For us, the picture has a touch of the sublime, as the Franciscan is alone in what looks like a vast landscape with nothing else in it. 19th Century painters often used sublimity to give the viewer a sense of the nearness of God. Joaquin Ferrer y Pallej (1846 1946) was a Spanish artist. He made