December 2010
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Thanks for sharing 2010 with us
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Guided by what’s going on in our world, an artwork a day. Each morning, 3rd of May will feature an artwork that seems relevant given something going on in the world. Maybe it will be a newspaper headline, an op-ed, a magazine expose or an important...
WatchPerugino, Nativity, ca. 1504. Collection of the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo.
WatchGerrit van Honthorst, Adoration of the Child, c. 1620. Collection of the Uffizi.
WatchBartolome Esteban Murillo, Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1646-1650. Collection of The State Hermitage Museum.
WatchFra Angelico, The Nativity, ca. 1425-30. Collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
WatchEl Greco, The Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1610. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
WatchGirolamo dai Libri, Single Miniature: The Nativity, circa 1515, Cleveland Museum of Art.
WatchSandro Botticelli, The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1478/1482. Collection of the National Gallery of Art.
WatchMartin Schongauer, The Nativity, c. 1480. Collection of the Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin.
WatchFra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1440/1460. Collection of the National Gallery of Art.
WatchPaul Gauguin, Be Be (The Nativity), 1896. Collection of The State Hermitage Museum.
WatchAndrea Mantegna, The Adoration of the Shepherds, shortly after 1450. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
WatchLazzaro Bastiani, Adoration of the Magi,
active c. 1425 - 1512, Frick Collection.
WatchWilliam Glackens, Merry Christmas, ca. 1910. Collection of the Brooklyn Museum.
WatchNicolas Maes, Adoration of the Shepherds, ~1660. The J. Paul Getty Museum.
WatchJan Gossaert, The Adoration of the Kings, 1510-15. National Gallery, London.
WatchNatalia Goncharova, The Nativity, for Liturgy, 1915. Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York.
WatchZelig Segal, Hanukkah Lamp, 1986. Collection of The Jewish Museum, New York.
WatchGerard David, The Nativity, early 1480s. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
WatchArnold Zadikow, Hanukkah Lamp, 1920s. Collection of The Jewish Museum, New York.
WatchAlbrecht Durer, Nativity, 1504. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
WatchExecutive Dreidel, Dreidel, 1993. Collection of The Jewish Museum, New York.
WatchWilliam Christenberry, Christmas Star, near Akron, Alabama, printed 2004. Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
WatchAbrasha, Hanukkah Menorah, 1995. Collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
WatchFlorine Stettheimer, Christmas, not dated. Collection of the Yale University Art Gallery.
WatchDuccio di Buoninsegna, The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel (detail), 1308/1311. Collection of the National Gallery of Art.
WatchKarim Rashid, Menoramorph, 2004. Collection of The Jewish Museum, New York.
WatchCentral Anti-Atlas Mountains (Morocco), Hanukkah Lamp, 19th century. Collection of The Jewish Museum.
WatchLorenzo Lotto, The Nativity, 1523. Collection The National Gallery of Art.
WatchWinslow Homer, Christmas Boxes in Camp - Christmas, 1861, 1862. Collection of Harvard Art Museum.
WatchFrom Augsberg Germany, Hanukkah Lamp, about 1750. Collection of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
WatchGuido Reni, The Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1640. Collection of The National Gallery, London.
WatchRichard Meier, Hanukkah Lamp, 1985. Collection of The Jewish Museum.
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Walker Evans, Untitled [Sign: Hanging Christmas Tree], 1973-74. © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Ze’ev Raban, Bezalel Workshop. Standing Hanukkah Lamp, circa 1930. Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art.
