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Sallman: Christ At Hearts Door Ornate Gold Finish Frame

Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95
Original price
$26.95
$26.95 - $26.95
Current price $26.95

Description:

We offer a wide variety of traditional and contemporary prints in our collection that are popular in the Catholic market. Print under glass includes an easel back and metal hangers for wall mounting.

This Framed Print was carefully created to ensure that it will maintain its looks for the years to come. They also make excellent gifts for any event.

Item No.:  GE-79-350

Features:

  • Featuring the Image Sallman: Christ At Hearts Door in an Ornate Gold Finish Frame. Print under glass includes an easel back and metal hangers for wall mounting.
  • Boxed: Polystyrene/Glass/Cardstock (11" W x 13" H)
  • Series 79 Bestsellers 8" x 10" Print in Ornate Gold Finish Frame

Story & Symbolism

Christ at Heart’s Door is the second-most cited image by Sallman among the 473 letters which the research project received from readers of popular religious magazines. It was inspired by a tradition of British and German painting and prints from the 19th century which depicts Christ knocking at the door of a home. The most famous of these images are the versions of The Light of the World by William Holman Hunt, the first of which Hunt completed in 1853 and which hangs today in Keble College, Oxford. Sallman followed the overt allegorizing evident in European versions of the subject such as Hunt’s. Viewers of Sallman’s picture appreciate the unambiguous legibility of the picture, whose subject is based on Revelation 3:20: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock …”