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2. Christmas angels - Wikipedia

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   Christmas angel typical for a village in Saxony. Christmas angels are small wooden figures portraying angels often playing an instrument. They can be arranged to an entire orchestra. The origins of artistic angel carving lie in the Ore Mountains where the angels are an integral part of Ore Mountain folk art.

3. Annunciation to the shepherds - Wikipedia

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   Annunciation to the shepherds. This late 15th-century Flemish miniature shows the annunciation to the shepherds. The annunciation to the shepherds is an episode in the Nativity of Jesus described in the Bible in Luke 2, in which angels tell a group of shepherds about the birth of Jesus. It is a common subject of Christian art and of Christmas ...

4. Nativity of Jesus in art - Wikipedia

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   The Nativity of Jesus has been a major subject of Christian art since the 4th century. The artistic depictions of the Nativity or birth of Jesus, celebrated at Christmas, are based on the narratives in the Bible, in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and further elaborated by written, oral and artistic tradition.

5. Angels in art - Wikipedia

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   Angels in art. Ezekiel's "chariot vision", by Matthaeus Merian (1593–1650), displaying several different types of angelic creatures. Angels have appeared in works of art since early Christian art, and they have been a popular subject for Byzantine and European paintings and sculpture. Normally given wings in art, angels are usually intended ...

6. The Mystical Nativity - Wikipedia

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   Dimensions. 108.5 cm × 74.9 cm (42.7 in × 29.5 in) Location. National Gallery, London. The Mystical Nativity is a painting in oil on canvas dated c. 1500–1501 by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, in the National Gallery in London. [1] [2] It is his only signed work and has an unusual iconography for a painting of the Nativity.

7. Nativity scene - Wikipedia

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   Neapolitan presepio at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh Detail of an elaborate Neapolitan presepio in Rome. In the Christian tradition, a nativity scene (also known as a manger scene, crib, crèche (/ k r ɛ ʃ / or / k r eɪ ʃ /), or in Italian presepio or presepe, or Bethlehem) is the special exhibition, particularly during the Christmas season, of art objects representing the birth ...