“Madonna of the Magnificat”

A copy of Botticelli’s Madonna of the Magnificat, from the Uffizi in Florence. Painted by Bertha in 1938, this work was until recently in the collection of Holy Trinity Episcopalian Church in Spokane, which had commissioned it from the artist while she was in Italy.

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When a “cute” friar gets to be forty or so he loses a lot of his cuteness and just becomes insignificant
I’m not so sure that feeding the Czechs to the wolves will help any in the long run

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Bertha Ballou

Bertha Ballou (1891-1978) was an American artist. She studied in New York, Boston and Italy and settled in Spokane, WA. She is the daughter of C.C. Ballou.