Christ the Student Icon Print

Christ the Student with the Mother of All Tenderness Commissioned by La Salle College High school in Pennsylvania. The artist Vivian Imbruglia loves to work on unique projects. The president of the school contacted her and requested that a special image be created for the students for his school. He would write to her with a description of what he envisioned and she would paint it. He would write: In this icon, it would be important to present the image of a teenaged Jesus, not a child, but not an adult.  He is sitting at a table with books and paper around, around sixteen years of age and approaching physical maturity, clearly doing some studying into the evening, perhaps preoccupied and a bit weary. Behind him, over his shoulder is the Blessed Mother.  Once again, we would present her differently from the usual way she appears, not as a youthful bride or mother of a baby, but as a middle aged woman, with grey in her hair and wrinkles, somewhat weary herself, but weary from a l