Thanksgiving on the Field of Agincourt

For this week, this high-resolution image is free for you to download on our Website. Image is public domain and royalty free. 


Artist: Edmund Blair Leighton (1853-1921)

Title: Thanksgiving Service on the Field of Agincourt
King Henry V of England kneels in the background, crown on ground, on the field of Agincourt where had just been fought an epic battle between English and French. The kneeling priest in the foreground leads the soldiers in prayers of thanksgiving for their victory, which God had granted them. The priest and crossbearer are the only figures with their mouths open, thus indicating the intonation of one of the hymns that King Henry commanded to be sung in thanksgiving and charity:

"Do we all holy rites;
Let there be sung 'Non Nobis' and 'Te Deum;'
The dead with charity enclosed in clay."
From Shakespeare's Henry V

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This High-Resolution, Catholic-art image is free for you to download. Make sure to visit us next week for another free, High-Resolution art download.

The featured picture this week is a painting by William Adolph Bouguereau entitled 'The Prayer.' The innocence of a child's prayer is captured in the life-like drama of Bouguereau's exquisite style. Some speculate that this particular rendition was meant, by the artist, to be the Blessed Virgin Mary as a child. Yet, since there is not even the faintest hint of a halo around the young woman's head, it remains mere speculation as the Virgin is traditionally depicted with some form of a halo. Regardless, this painting remains a classic manifestation of the physical beauty of Bouguereau's subject and the metaphysical splendor of the theme: transcendence of the soul to God through prayer.

Larger Images, More Art Info.

Our Advent sale is still in full swing, and we're happy to announce that we've completed adding more detailed information to each image listed on our site. Each high-resolution image now has a more detailed description of its origin i.e. artist, art style, time line of the artist and full painting title. For a more informed decision on each image, we've also included the largest suggested print size for each image.

If you're not in the market for buying our high-resolution, Catholic images, we hope that you can at least find our information as a valuable resource for whatever project you may be working on.

The next project, which we are only half-way done with right now, is adding larger images. In order for you to view larger images, we've incorporated a non-invasive watermark on each image: 'RestoredTraditions.com,' which will not appear on the purchased JPEG image file. Visit this Madonna & Child image for a better idea.

We hope you continue to have a blessed and penitential Advent, along with a holy Christmas!

Best 25 Catholic Paintings of All Time

Immaculate Heart of Mary by American artist Charles Bosseron CB Chambers.

These 25 Images of Catholic Paintings are available as high-resolution digital downloads. These Catholic-art pictures of Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other inspirational scenes have been voted the best images over again for the past three years by you, our customers. We hope that these religious-art paintings will inspire and kindle devotion in your prayer life for years to come. 

Update 6-3-2013
We've made a few adjustments to this list since the post was initially created. See the beautiful artwork below. Click on images to find out more about the art or purchase the high res image. 

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What to do with Digital Art

What am I supposed to do with digital artwork?

Print it yourself:

Let's not kid ourselves, more and more of us are getting home printers that can pump out some amazing quality images. Granted, quality printers are relatively cheap because most manufacturers get you on the cost of ink. However, if you are trying to save a buck, it's still going to be cheaper for you overall if you print off your own photo quality image at 5x7 or 8x10. Even if you choose to use a more expensive paper, when you combine your ink and paper cost, it's still cheaper to go this route than to buy an art-print from a retailer. When you buy prints from a retailer, the main advantages are that you can get a bigger print than what your printer can do, perhaps better quality papers and inks, and maybe even a quality image that you don't have (of course, there's the convenience of not having to go through the work of printing yourself).

When you print yourself, it can often take a lot of trial and error to configure your computer, printer, and paper choice for optimal quality. However, once you get this potentially costly configuration down pat, it's the most cost effective way to go, assuming you don't want anything too fancy.

Problems you may run into printing yourself are lines appearing on the image, random dots, ink bleeding, and color tonality issues. In many cases, you need to go to your printer software and perform the regular cleaning/ maintenance/ alignment cycles that printers need sometimes to function properly.

Have someone else print it:

This may be the way to go if you want something bigger than what your printer can handle, if you don't want to fuss with printing configurations, or if you want something printed on a variety of papers. If you save the digital file to a flash drive or CD/ DVD, you can take it to about any print shop to get your image customized. Furthermore, if you want multiples of a print (say, for distribution), this is probably going to be more cost effective than trying to do it yourself. Then again, if you appreciate more the satisfaction of having done something from beginning to end totally by yourself, then print yourself.