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Christmas gift-bringers in Europe. This is a list of Christmas and winter gift-bringer figures from around the world. The history of mythical or folkloric gift-bringing figures who appear in winter, often at or around the Christmas period, is complex, and in many countries the gift-bringer – and the gift-bringer's date of arrival – has changed over time as native customs have been ...
The picture juxtaposes the similarities between the soft oval white face of the model, as if she were a living mask, with the shiny black mask, also with eyes closed and a serene expression. [4] It also expresses the artist's interest in African art, which had a huge influence in the artistic movements of the first decades of the 20th century.
Other Christmas cards are more secular and can depict Christmas traditions, figures such as Santa Claus, objects directly associated with Christmas such as candles, holly, and baubles, or a variety of images associated with the season, such as Christmastide activities, snow scenes, and the wildlife of the northern winter. [168]
The painting is now dated before other events that had previously been discussed by some art historians as influences on it. [16] Firstly, "the first landmark winter of the Grindelwald Fluctuation in 1564/65", [ 17 ] which is often regarded as the first sign of the most intense phase of the Little Ice Age , [ 18 ] and secondly the Beeldenstorm ...
Twenty-six-year-old Clooney played older sister Betty and 33-year-old Vera-Ellen played the younger sister Judy. Even more striking is the age difference between Rosemary and her male counterpart.
Holidays portal; Winter holidays — contemporary and historical seasonal holidays integral to winter. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories ...
Winter holiday may refer to: Christmas and holiday season; Winter holiday, a name sometimes given to the Christmas period to avoid Christian connotations (see Christmas controversy) Winter Holiday, a book in the Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome; Winter Holidays (Vacanze d'inverno), a 1959 Italian film
The decade from 1810 to 1819 was the coldest in England since the 17th century. In 1812, the French Grande Armée was forced to retreat from Moscow by the advancing winter – known to the Russians as General Snow. These climactic events played a great part in the development of a new art genre, the winter landscape. [6]