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Das Christ-Elflein (The Little Elf of Christ) [1] is an opera in two acts by Hans Pfitzner to a German-language libretto by Pfitzner and Ilse von Stach. The work was originally premiered in 1906 as a Christmas play by von Stach with incidental music by Pfitzner. It was later revised by the composer into a two-act opera (the version performed ...
Although he reused the three main figures from the cartoon, it was above all this motif that Bernardino Luini also repeated in several paintings: The Virgin with Jesus and John the Baptist as Children, a fresco in the Church of St Mary of the Angels in Lugano dating from the first quarter of the 16th century; and another from which a follower ...
Mary's eyes are fixed on the Christ Child who raises his hand in a gesture of benediction over the cousin who thirty years later would carry out his appointed task of baptising Christ. Although the older of the two children, John the Baptist humbly accepts the blessing, as one who would later say of his cousin "I am not worthy even to unloose ...
A considerable part consisted of tondi, in which the artist portrayed Mary, the Divine Child and the Infant Saint John the Baptist in worship. The tondi (tondo, singular) were works of art in circular shape (paintings or sculptures), mostly of sacred or historical themes.
Das Christ-Elflein (Christ's Little Elf), composed by Hans Pfitzner to a libretto by Pfitzner and Ilse von Stach, premiered on 11 December 1917 at the Königlich-Sächsisches Hoftheater in Dresden. [41] A Christmas Tale, composed by Eleanor Everest Freer to a libretto by Barrett H. Clark premiered on 27 December 1927 in Houston, Texas.
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The work is part of a series of sacred conversations in a landscape, dating back more or less to the same years made by Titian. In the Edinburgh canvas too, the pictorial space is divided into two asymmetrical halves, one dominated by shadow and other by an open landscape; in the foreground, the luminous figures of the Virgin and Child stand out, between the two saints arranged around her with ...
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