The Visitation – Carl Heinrich Bloch – The Meeting of Mary and Elisabeth – Beautiful Catholic Art Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):8.5x11 Black Frame doing epic and ornate scenes

doing epic and ornate scenes

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the bread and wine become Jesus's body and blood

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The Visitation – Carl Heinrich Bloch – The Meeting of Mary and Elisabeth – Beautiful Catholic Art Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):8.5x11 Black Frame doing epic and ornate scenesPainted in 1866 by Carl Bloch, this is perhaps our favorite Visitation painting. We like the crisp style, the strong colors, the clear theme. Mary has come to Elizabeth's, who is coming down the stairs to her. It has a symbolic value of the old rite coming down to the new, which is ascending. Carl Heinrich Bloch (1834 1890) was a religious painter from Denmark. Enormously popular in his day, his paintings are mostly Bible scenes. You have probably