Winter Landscape with Cathedral – Casper David Friedrich – Beautiful Catholic Art – Archival Quality Madonna and Child a crown of thorns

a crown of thorns

There is something touching about this delicately beautiful image

Kuhlen and Gladbach were one of the great German holy card and religious printers of the 19th Century

Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Bréville (1858-1931)

The rose can be for Mary or Therese or any Rose you want

Winter Landscape with Cathedral – Casper David Friedrich – Beautiful Catholic Art – Archival Quality Madonna and Child a crown of thornsEven more than beauty, the main project of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (17741840) was representations of the sublime. Although beauty is part of the sublime, the main quality of it is the awesome. Things that are sublime are large and somewhat intimidating. They make the soul feel its place in the cosmos: small and vulnerable. The experience of the sublime is the experience of what is lofty and grand, of what is exalted. Obviously,