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- The Census at Bethlehem – Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Pieter Bruegel is one of the most celebrated members of a movement that’s commonly referred to as the Flemish Renaissance.
- The Sistine Madonna – Raphael. Raphael is remembered as one of the most talented artists from the Italian Renaissance. He was known as a prolific painter, as well as a gifted and skilled architect who created a number of impressive paintings related to the Christian religion.
- Snow at Argenteuil – Claude Monet. Claude Monet is remembered as the father of the Impressionist movement, which took place in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- The Mystical Nativity – Sandro Botticelli. It was common for many artists during the Renaissance to depict earthly scenes along with heavenly beings in the same work.
Dec 25, 2020 · I searched the interwebs for Christmas art to share with you today and I ended up finding TONS! After retrieving myself from various rabbit holes, I’m sharing 15 favorites from the ones that I found. 1. The Nativity by Martin Schongauer (1435-1491) 1435–1491, The Nativity by Martin Schongauer.
- Christmas Eve, Henri Matisse
- Christmas Cards, Salvador Dali
- Christmas Cards, Andy Warhol
- Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Paddle, Jeff Koons
- Joseph and Mary Can’T Make It to Bethlehem, Banksy
This piece was originally a design for a stained-glass window that was never realised. The work aligned with the art sacré movement – an attempt to get the best art by the best, not necessarily religious, artists into the church. Matisse himself was known as a humanist before anything else, saying “I would like to accomplish that people who are tir...
You might know Salvador Dali for his dripping clocks or his pet anteater, but he was also the man behind a series of 19 Christmas cards for a Barcelona card company. The imagery he used in these cards did away with the traditional Mediterranean Catholic Christmas imagery, and instead made use of American and Central European elements, such as the C...
Andy Warhol had a similar, albeit little less successful, venture into Christmas card design. Before moving onto soup, he needed some bread and butter, and spent a large part of the 1950s creating blotted line Christmas cards, one of which is pictured here. Fairy and Christmas Ornaments – Christmas Card by Andy Warhol. Source: Art.com
Jeff Koons is well known for his pop art that references cultural iconography, and what better icon for the modern day Christmas than Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? These paddle boards were created in a series of 900. According to Jeff, “Art is really just communication of something and the more archetypal it is, the more communicative it is.” Pad...
World famous street artist Banksy isn’t exactly one to let a chance for political commentary pass him by, and he packs a punch with this Christmas card. The work shows Mary and Joseph’s passage to Bethlehem being blocked by the infamous apartheid wall that separates Israel from Palestine and the West Bank, creating unsettling parallels between Mary...
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- Sandro Botticelli - Adoration of the Magi, 1475. Sandro Botticelli's Adoration of the Magi is the oldest artwork on our list dating back to 1475. The artwork commissioned by the famous Italian art patrons the Medicis depicts the powerful family as worshipers of the newborn baby Jesus.
- Leonardo Da Vinci - The Adoration of the Magi, c1482. One of the best early paintings by Leonardo da Vinci was created in a triangular composition and packed with symbolism, two characteristics recurrent in his work.
- Giorgione - The Adoration of the Shepherds - 1505 - 1510. This intimate scene set up against the distant landscape was painted by Giorgione shortly before his premature death.
- Raphael - The Sistine Madona, 1513 - 1514. The Sistine Madonna, also known as the Madonna di San Sisto, is the last depiction of Mary the famous artist ever made.
In this spirit we've had a trawl through the Art UK box marked 'Christmas' to bring you some of the finest Christmas – and winter – art we could muster from the nation's art collection. We've chosen a piece of art that exemplifies each seasonal category, plus some other worthy mentions.
Dec 22, 2023 · However, since the mid-19th century, when modern traditions like Christmas tree decorating and carolling developed, they also started to get represented in Christmas paintings. In this article, you can enjoy some of the most beautiful paintings depicting Christmas in art.
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Dec 14, 2022 · Artists throughout the ages have celebrated Christmas in the best ways they know how: with spectacular paintings celebrating the season’s joy, spirit, and true meaning. Here are twenty of the most iconic Christmas paintings ever created.
