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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 · Norman Rockwell has lots of Christmas themed art to check out. He was an American painter and illustrator who created art idealizing ordinary life for The Saturday Evening Post and later art surrounding social justice issues and space exploration for Look Magazine.
- 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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- Karen Carpenter (The Carpenters) If you’ve ever listened to a Carpenters’ song without the musical accompaniment you get an idea of just how pure Karen Carpenter’s voice was.
- Ella Fitzgerald. The First Lady of Song, Lady Ella, and the Queen of Jazz were just some of Ella Fitzgerald’s monikers. She is known for her beautiful tone, scat singing, timing, and phrasing.
- Nat King Cole. Nat King Cole, born Nathaniel Adams Cole in Montgomery, Alabama, was the first African-American to host an American TV show. He had 100 songs that made it to the pop charts.
- Bing Crosby. “White Christmas” was written by Irving Berlin and released in 1942. Bing Crosby’s version is the best-selling song of all time, having sold over 50 million copies.
- Botticelli The Annunciation (1489) The Chapel of the Florentine monastery Cestello commissioned the Florentine Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli to paint the archangel Gabriel visiting the Virgin Mary to deliver the news that she will give birth to the son of God.
- Rembrandt Dream of Joseph (1645) The Flemish painter depicts Christ’s earthly father who agrees to wed Mary when he discovers she is pregnant. In the gospel of Matthew, God sends an angel to Joseph in a dream to explain the divine conception and instructs him to name the child Jesus.
- Hugo van der Goes Mary and Joseph on the Way to Bethlehem (1475) The painting, which is a part of the Portinari Altarpiece, shows Mary and Joseph traveling to Bethlehem.
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Census at Bethlehem (1566) Set in a snowy, winter scene inspired by his native Flanders, Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicts Mary and Joseph on their way to be registered in a census ordered by the Romans.
Dec 7, 2020 · Here are five of the most famous Christmas paintings in the history of art. 1. “Adoration of the Shepherds” by El Greco. Photo caption: “Adoration of the Shepherds” by El Greco. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. This Christmas painting by artist El Greco (The Greek) celebrates the story of the shepherds who visited the baby Jesus after he ...
Dec 22, 2023 · To many of us, the Christian religious and cultural celebration called Christmas is surely one of our favorite times of the year. Burl Ives famously sang “Have a holly, jolly Christmas…. It’s the best time of the year…”. So, let’s sum up these jolly holidays and look again at what Christmas in art looks like. One of the best ways to ...
