Madonna of the Crown of Roses

by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog

Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs, Madonna, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches, 2020 Deposuit potentes de sede, et exaltavit humiles. He has put down the mighty from their seat, and exalted the lowly. —Luke 1:52 Tradition attributes several paintings and sculptures of Our Lady...

Homage to an Empress

by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | Mar 21, 2020 | Blog

Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs, Our Lady of Guadalupe, oil on linen, 2020 Loss & Recovery In 1326 the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a cowherd named Gil Cordero on the bank of the Guadalupe River in Extremadura, Spain, and revealed the existence of a statue that had...

Darkness & Blood: A New Pietà

by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | Jun 17, 2019 | Blog

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood: before the great and dreadful day of the Lord doth come.—Joel 2:31 The Prophecy of Joel After the descent of the Holy Ghost on Pentecost Sunday, when St. Peter preaches the Gospel for the first time, he...

A Crown of Gold for the House of Gold

by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | May 11, 2019 | Blog

Crown of the Andes, now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York In the last decade of the 1590s, in gratitude to the Immaculate Conception for having spared them from an outbreak of smallpox, the people of Popayán in the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada offered her...

Pietà with Saints John and Mary Magdalen

by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | Apr 16, 2019 | Blog

Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mortemChrist became obedient for us unto death—From the Gradual for Maundy Thursday, based on Philippians 2:8 On Monday of Passion Week Gwyneth began working on a commission for a Pietà with Saints John and Mary...