Tag: Christmas
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Great Gifts for Art Lovers – 2024 Holiday Season
Here are my recommendations for the best gifts for art lovers this 2024 holiday season.
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The Sumptuous Saints of Carlo Crivelli
Meet Carlo Crivelli, painter of Madonnas and saints. His rich, beautiful style is part Gothic and part Renaissance, with a hint of Byzantine icon painting.
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“Pictor Angelicus” – Fra Angelico the Angelic Painter
In honor of the Christmas season, let’s look at Fra Angelico – an Italian Renaissance artist famous for his beautiful and elegant angel paintings.
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Lyndhurst at Christmastime
Over the weekend, I visited Lyndhurst, a 19th-century Gothic Revival mansion in Tarrytown, NY, to take the delightful Christmas tour.
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Four Magical Christmas and Winter Paintings
Eager to get into the holiday spirit? Enjoy this selection of winter and Christmas-themed paintings by American, British, and European artists.
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Nativity by Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (December 25th)
The Christmas Day edition of an art history Advent calendar features a Nativity painting by French artist Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre.
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Christmas Eve by Edmund Restein (December 24th)
As soon as I saw this work, I knew I had to feature it today. It’s not just the name that makes it appropriate. It so perfectly captures the spirit of Christmas Eve, at least as I’ve always experienced it – the early darkness, the inviting light from the church windows, and the well-dressed families…
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Christkindlmarkt Am Hof by Carl Wenzel Zajicek (December 23rd)
For an art historical Advent calendar, a beautiful, snow-filled painting of a Viennese Christmas market by Austrian painter Carl Wenzel Zajicek.
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A Young Girl Dressed Up for Christmas (December 22nd)
For a fine art Advent calendar, a charming illustration of a well-dressed little girl by Kate Greenaway.
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Merry Christmas by Viggo Johansen (December 21st)
Day 21 of a fine art Advent calendar is a lovely painting of a family dancing around the Christmas tree by Danish artist Viggo Johansen.
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A Still Life by Johanna Helena Looisen (December 20th)
Today’s painting, Still Life with Christmas Pudding, Holly and Wine, is my first Advent Calendar work by a female artist. I wasn’t specifically looking for a work by a female painter today, just as I wasn’t intentionally avoiding female artists for the first nineteen days. I’m featuring the painting because I love it; it’s compelling for…
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Christmas-Time, the Blodgett Family (December 19th)
Eastman Johnson, Christmas-Time, The Blodgett Family, 1864. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It’s very difficult to find genre paintings (scenes of everyday life) with Christmas settings. I assume that’s because the Christmas traditions we are familiar with today have only come into being relatively recently when compared with the entire the history of art. I had…