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Chant Art, founded by
Santa Barbara City College marketing professor Julie Ann Brown,
is not your everyday e-commerce venture. Inspired by a desire to preserve
and share antique European religious images from prayer books and holy
cards, Brown has devoted much of her limited free time, and all of her
inheritance, to collecting, scanning and posting over 100,000 of "God's
calling cards" as well as Victorian books on CD for purchase through
the web. The site is located at http://www.catholicdigitalimages.com/
Taking advantage of travel discount tickets
obtained through her airline pilot husband, she scoured eight European
countries collecting holy cards and lavishly illustrated antique prayer
books at auctions, bookstores and estate sales. In spite of knowing it
will be years before she can recoup her $150,000 investment, she is thrilled
she is accomplishing her goal of preserving this fragile, paper-based religious
art for future generations.
"Time is running out for most antique paper,"
said Brown. "Modern technology is a part of God's plan to help not only
with remembering the past but creating future possibilities that at this
time we cannot imagine. My goal is to get my entire collection up on the
Web before I die. I want to preserve this art, this history, for future
generations."
A fan of holy cards since childhood, she
hopes her website's religious images of Jesus, angels, saints, Easter and
Christmas scenes will inspire a new generation of the faithful. "I'm hoping
this art will create a resurgence of faith in Europe," said Brown.
She may be onto something. Entrepreneurs
from around the world are finding their way to Chant Art for affordable
images to use in a multitude of projects. Since the website's religious
images are at least 75 years old, with the majority created in the 1800s
and early 1900s, they are royalty-free because they are classified as "public
domain" under copyright law. Brown charges a nominal one-time fee of $2-3
per image.
Customers have used her images for projects
such as wedding and christening announcements, needlepoint patterns, t-shirt
transfers, home schooling materials and personalized holy cards. Sophia
Loren's production company in Canada used many of the images for a mini-series
on the lives of the saints while the Hallmark Channel in the U.S. recently
used an image of St. Hildegard of Bingen obtained from HolyCards.com.
"These images can be used by anyone, from the little entrepreneur to the
Vatican," said Brown. Log on to www.catholicdigitalimages.com
for downloadable, royalty-free
Christian religious images.
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