Terms of Service

Acceptance

These terms govern the use of jesusoilpaintings.com, published by Gospel Cycle Editorial, and the purchase of paintings from Jesus Christ Oil Paintings by Art & See. Using the site means accepting them. If you do not accept them, do not use the site.

Who sells the paintings

Paintings on jesusoilpaintings.com are sold by Art & See under the name Jesus Christ Oil Paintings by Art & See. Your order is a contract with Art & See, and the charge appears on your card statement under a descriptor that begins with ART&SEE.

What you are buying

Each painting is a reproduction painted by hand, in oil, by one of our artists, from an image of the original. It is not the original work and it is not by the original artist. It is made to order, after you buy it.

Brushwork, texture and colour will differ slightly from the original and from the image on your screen. That variation comes with a painting made by hand and is not a defect. Screens show colour differently, so no image on this site can promise an exact colour match.

Prices and payment

Prices are in US dollars and include shipping to a single address anywhere in the world. They do not include import duties or taxes charged by the country of delivery: the buyer is the importer of record and pays them.

Payment is taken at checkout and processed by Stripe. An order is confirmed once payment is. If a price or a description on the site turns out to be wrong, we may cancel the affected order, even after it is confirmed, and refund it in full.

Production, approval and delivery

A painting usually takes 2 to 3 weeks to make, up to 4 weeks for complex pieces and up to 8 weeks for large ones. Before it ships you receive a photograph of it, and it ships once you approve that photograph. Approving it confirms how the painting looks. The Shipping page on this site sets out packing, tracking and customs in full.

Cancellations and returns

You may cancel within 24 hours of ordering for a full refund. After delivery, the Returns page on this site sets out what can be done within 90 days, and it forms part of these terms. Frames are final sale.

The version of these terms and of the Returns page in effect when you place an order is the one that governs that order.

If something is wrong with an order, write to info@art-and-see.com before opening a dispute with your bank or card issuer. It is almost always the faster way to have it put right.

Copyright, and the difference between a museum and a church

The paintings catalogued here are overwhelmingly pre-nineteenth-century, and the paintings themselves are in the public domain. Copyright in a work by Caravaggio or Rogier van der Weyden expired long ago and cannot be revived.

Two complications are specific to this subject. The first is the photograph: some European institutions assert a copyright in faithful reproductions of works they hold, a right that courts in the United States have declined to recognise. The second has nothing to do with copyright at all. A painting in a working church is on private premises, and the community that holds it can restrict photography as a condition of entry regardless of the age of the picture. A work being out of copyright does not make a photograph of it lawfully taken.

Devotional paintings of the later nineteenth and the twentieth centuries are frequently still in copyright, and they do not belong in a catalogue that reproduces what it records; where one appears here with an image, that is an error to correct rather than a claim of fair use. If a work in your care appears here and you would prefer it did not, write to desk@jesusoilpaintings.com; it will be removed on request, without an argument about whether it had to be.

Using the catalogue text

Catalogue facts — a date, a support, a set of dimensions, the name of a collection — are facts, and facts are not owned by anybody. Take them and use them.

The written text of this site is a different matter: it is the work of Gospel Cycle Editorial and is not offered for republication. Quote it, cite it and link to it freely. Do not copy pages wholesale, and do not feed the site to a scraper that reproduces it elsewhere as though it were its own.

What an episode assignment is worth

Placing a painting at a point in the narrative is an editorial reading of the picture. It is frequently the same reading a museum has published, and it is sometimes not. Where a work is genuinely ambiguous, the entry says so rather than choosing.

This is a catalogue of paintings. It makes no claim about the historical truth of the events depicted, takes no confessional position, and should not be relied on as a source on scripture, doctrine or liturgy. Nor should any entry here be used to authenticate a painting or support a valuation.

No warranty, and limits on liability

The site is provided as it is. No warranty is given that it will be available, that it will be free of error, or that it is fit for any particular purpose. Links to other sites are provided for reference and imply no responsibility for what is on them. Paintings you buy are covered by the sections on orders above and by the Returns page.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, no liability is accepted for indirect or consequential loss arising from use of the site, including loss arising from reliance on anything published here. Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud, where such a limit would not be permitted.

Changes, and where to write

These terms may change; the date at the top changes with them. For questions about an order, email info@art-and-see.com or call +1 (332) 296 0276 (Monday to Friday, 9 am to 6 pm CST). Questions about the catalogue go to Gospel Cycle Editorial at desk@jesusoilpaintings.com.