Nun Praying in Church – "On Good Friday" – Olga Boznańska – Catholic Art – Catholic Gift – Archival Quality Our Lady of Grace and Light It was worth the 1500

It was worth the 1500 miles of driving

of men and women

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

Thousands of pilgrims visit the church every year

Nun Praying in Church – "On Good Friday" – Olga Boznańska – Catholic Art – Catholic Gift – Archival Quality Our Lady of Grace and Light It was worth the 1500Olga 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