"Thou Shalt Be Over My House" - St. Joseph karl I The Christ child

The Christ child

John Roddam Spencer Stanhope is an English artist associated with Edward Burne-Jones and George Frederic Watts and often regarded as a second-wave pre-Raphaelite

” (Luke 2:29–32)

who played a significant role in the cultural and spiritual development of the Slavic people

and divine assistance for all believers

"Thou Shalt Be Over My House" - St. Joseph karl I The Christ childHere, St. Joseph's patriarchal authority is pronounced by a very dominant posture. Holding the infant Christ, he steps forward from an ornate, stone throne signed with the Latin inscription, "Tu eris super domum mean" (You are placed over all my household) a scriptural foreshadowing from the bible and the story of Joseph in Egypt. This noble fresco of the foster father of the Lord Jesus Christ was painted by 19th century artist Francesco Grandi who