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We received some money for Christmas and would like to purchase a wall picture.
What is one of your favorites?
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I came to post just the same thing! I'm looking for a picture to hang in my newly rennovated wall, but it's become such a complicated thing. I want it to reflect a part of me and to be inspirational, not just space filler. I want it to reflect one of my passions: children, friendship, tea, bread, English country side. It doesn't have to represent all of these but at least one.
Nicole, it might also help to list your color scheme. My kitchen is a sand color with Venetian Gold granite, black appliances, and honey pine woodwork.
I am so stuck on this!
Thanks for any help!
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Ummm, I have no color scheme...unless it is mismatched furniture and white walls with peach still showing through in some places!  Maybe a new picture will inspire me to paint!
I was just hoping people would share a picture or image that speaks to them. 
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My favorite is my avatar, La Madonnnina, or Madonna of the Street, by Roberto Ferruzzi. My mother bought us a large reproduction of this several years ago and had it custom framed. I love it.
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Any works by Bougereau are always inspiring:
[URL=http://www.catholicposters.com/shop/search.php?searchName=1&searchQuery=Bouguereau/URL]
The Polish Madonna is a favorite:
[URL=http://www.catholicposters.com/shop/search.php?searchName=1&searchQuery=Polish+Madonna/URL]
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I got this one as a gift a few years ago. It has a lot of pastels.  It's called "The flight into Egypt." Notice St. Joseph so humble behind the Blessed Mother. It's my favorite.
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Wow, Ruth, I've never seen that one! It's really beautiful!
I second the Bougereau recommendation as well. I just love L'Innocence. Another favorite is Song of the Angels - we have that in our music room.
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I love Bougereau's work too! But this has been on my wish list for a while now:
Holy Family with a Bird
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We have a pair of prints in our great room that I love.
They are both matted and framed in the first style:
Divine Mercy print
Our Lady of the Angels print
The second print includes the Magnificat in the same place where the Divine Mercy prayer is in the first print. If that makes any sense. 
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I don't have a favorite print--I have many. In our dining room, I have Madonna of the Streets. On another wall, I have a print of John Paul II and above that Jesus (from Jesus and the Rich Man).
In the living room above the fire place, hangs Our Lady of Guadalupe--which is also the name of our homeschool. Above the piano is Michaelanglo's God creating man--just the hands touching--from the Sistine Chapel. I want to place The Angelus above a bookshelf, but have yet to find one and frame it.
I love Catholic art. One of my friends thinks there is more art in my house than there is in our church! I would like to have more, but I am running out of wall space on which to hang it.
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Stef,
The Holy With a Bird is wonderful! I printed a copy for the front of our refrigerator last year....I liked the playful mood of the scene and felt my children would enjoy imagining the Holy Family relate with one another in such a way! We like to hang various domestic images of the Holy Family to remind us that they once shared domestic and family life, as we now do. It helps sanctify the ordinary for us.
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My dh would like to have Michaelanglo's God creating Man picture above our bed!
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As others have already said, "Innocence" by William Bourguereau is just stunning. I wrote about my feelings toward this gorgeous painting of Our Lady holding a lamb and the Christ Child last year. You will find the painting and post here, but this will save you the trouble of leaving 4Real to read it:
"Innocence" by William Bourguereau, 19th Century, France
This ethereal painting graces the mantle of our cottage. A gift from a friend, it is and always will be one of my most treasured possessions. Our Lady, in all her pure radiance and loveliness, turns away from our gaze, so absorbed is she in her sleeping infant. Her expression of loving devotion and contemplation beckons us to look, not upon her beauty, but upon her beloved Son. She embraces Him with tenderness, but with the firm grasp of a mother who wishes, as I often do, that she could hold onto her Child and the moment forever. To the right, also in Our Lady's care, is a lamb, the symbol of innocence and sacrifice. Our Lady embraces the Lamb unreservedly, but her eyes and countenance turn away from it, almost as if she cannot bear to contemplate the sacrifice that her blameless, blessed babe will endure.
Seeing a lamb in Our Lady's arms also brings to mind my first child, Agnes, whose name means "lamb," while the sleeping baby with the downy head and milky shoulders looks quite a bit like little Catherine. I have often gazed at this picture envisioning Our Lady holding both my eldest and youngest children, and, in so doing, symbolically cradling all of my young ones. She is, after all, their mother too and loves each one dearly. They need only to go to her, and she will take them gladly in her loving arms and present them to her Son. This painting never lets me forget that.
I am not usually one for decorating, but "Innocence" formed the central inspiration for all the other colors and furnishings in the cottage. Our muted green walls and sepia-toned floral fabrics, with hints of ivory and pink hue, were all taken from the colors in this piece of art. We have soft rose vines hand painted round it, to represent Our Lady, the Mystical Rose. The vines draw the eye to the gilded frame bordering the picture, while the frame draws the eye to the Blessed Mother, and the Blessed Mother draws all eyes to Her Son. In this way, as in reality, Our Lady is the frame for Our Lord. I like to think that, through these furnishings and decorations, Our Immaculate Mother Mary has symbolically permeated the cottage, in the same way that her influence and guidance must permeate our lives and our hearts.
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Ruth! I just looked at your Flight into Egypt. My local religious goods store had it in the window a while back and I was enamored by it right away. It would be impossible to do justice to that painting here on the internet. You need to see the colors and light close up. I had forgotten about it until now, but it is a stunner!
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