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Georges de la Tour (1593-1652), The New-born (1640s), Oil on
canvas, 76 x 91 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes.
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There are thousands of renditions of the Holy Family, the
Nativity, the Wise Men (Magi), etc., but I've tried to be
selective. I consider the following some of the best I've found.
You can also find
Christmas stories
and articles elsewhere on the site. I've divided out some
specialized kinds of pictures:
Birth
of Jesus pictures Christian computer art site
Georges de la Tour (French painter, 1593-1652),
influenced by the dramatic chiarscuro of Caravaggio.
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Christ in the Carpenter's Shop (1645), Oil on canvas,
137 x 101 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
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The Dream of St Joseph (c. 1640), Oil on canvas, 93
x 81 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
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Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1644), Oil on canvas, 107 x
131 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
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The New-born (1640s), Oil on canvas, 76 x 91 cm, Musée des
Beaux-Arts, Rennes
Sir John Everett
Millais (Pre-Raphaelite English painter and illustrator, 1829-1896)
Christ in the House of His Parents (1849). Oil on canvas.
Tate Gallery, London, UK.
Another.
James Jacques Joseph Tissot,
Christmas, Birth, Childhood of Jesus (French painter and illustrator,
1836-1902).
Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Rembrandt, "The Angel Appears to the Shepherds" (c. 1640-42),pen and brush drawing; 17.6 x 20 cm, Hamburg, Kunsthalle.
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Rembrandt
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The Annunciation of the angel Gabriel to Mary (1635). Pen
and Ink; 14.4x12.4cm; Besancon, Musee des Beaux-Arts (France)
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The Angel appears to the shepherds (c. 1640-42). Pen and
brush drawing; 17.6 x 20 cm; Hamburg, Kunsthalle. Another.
- The Angel Appears to Joseph in a Dream (panel, 1645,
Berlin, Gem Idegalerie der Staatlichen Museen)
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The
Flight into Egypt (panel, 1627, 26.5 x 24 cm, Tours, Museé
des Beaux Arts)
- The Adoration of the Magi (paper on canvas, 1632,
Leningrad, Hermitage)
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Adoration of the Shepherds
(1646) Canvas, 65.5 x 55 cm, London, National Gallery.
Another.
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Adoration of the Shepherds (1646),
97 x 71 cm. Alte Pinekothek, Munich
- The Holy Family (panel, 1640. Paris, The Louvre)
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Flight into Egypt (c. 1654), etching, 9.3 x 14.4 cm;
London, British Museum
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Simeon's prophecy to Mary (c. 1628). Oil on panel; 55.5 x
44 cm; Hamburg, Kunsthalle
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Simon in Temple (1669), oil on canvas. 99 x 78.5 cm;
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Rembrandt, Life of Christ collection, The Words Online.
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Dream of St. Joseph (warning them to flee to Egypt)
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St. Joseph's Dream (1645). Oil on panel. Gemäldegalerie,
Berlin, Germany

Rembrandt, The Adoration of the Shepherds (detail, 1646),
The National Gallery, London.
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Edward Lear (1812-1888),
Bethlehem (1860s). Signed with mongram. Oil on canvas:
9 x 18 inches. Fine Art Society, London.
William Blake
Sandro Botticelli (Florentine painter, 1444-1510)
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The Annunciation (1489-90), tempera on wood 150x156cm, The
Uffizi, Florence
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The Mystical Nativity (c. 1500), Tempera on canvas, 108,5 x
75 cm, National Gallery, London.
Large.
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The Nativity (1475-1480) Florence, 1444-1510, fresco
transferred to canvas, Columbia (SC) Museum of Art
Pieter Brueghel the Elder (Flemish painter (1525-69)

Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Flemish painter, 1599-1641), "Madonna della Paglia (Madonna
of the Straw)" Galleria
Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome, Italy.
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Sir Anthony Van Dyck
(Flemish painter, 1599-1641),
Nativity, in Time Magazine, Dec 13, 2004.
"Madonna della Paglia," Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica,
Rome, Italy. Fra Angelico (Florentine painter, c. 1400-1455)
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Nativity, 1440-41, Fresco, 193 x 164 cm, Convento di San
Marco, Florence
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Adoration of the Magi (1433-34), Tempera on wood, Museo
Diocesano, Cortona.
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Story of St. Nicholas, Perugia Triptych, 1437, Tempera on
wood, 34 x 60 cm, Pinacoteca, Vatican
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The Annunciation (c. 1437), Fresco, Monastery of San Marco,
Florence. Fresco, 230 x 321 cm
Caspar David Friedrich,
Angels in Adoration, 1826. Sepia. 18,5 x 26,7 cm. Hamburger
Kunsthalle. Hamburg. Germany. (in Time Magazine, Dec
13, 2004)
Thema:
Geburt und Kindheit Jesu
St. Nicholas with Scenes from His Life, Latter half of the
16th century, 135 x 124. Egg tempera on lime wood, From the
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in the village of Liskovate
(Poland). Lviv National Museum, # i-1181.
William Hole, R.S.A., R.E. (British artist, 1846-1917). Erma Ferrari (illustrated by
William Hole), The Life of Jesus of Nazareth (Simon and
Schuster, 1958). also The Life of Jesus of Nazareth Portrayed in Colours.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1908 and later, 8"x10". Or is this William Brassey
Hole, RE, RSW, RSA (1867-1917).
- The Angel Gabriel Appears to Mary
- Mary Goes to See Elizabeth
- Wisemen Worshipping Jesus
- Wise Men Com Looking for Jesus
- Carpentry
- *The Angels Appear to the Shepherds
- *The Shepherds Come to See the Baby Jesus
- The Shepherds Come to See Jesus
- Simeon Blessing Jesus in the Temple
- The Flight to Egypt
- Jesus Growing Up in Nazareth
- Mary and Joseph Arrive in Bethlehem
Annunciation and Angels
See
Annunciation and Angels Paintings and Artwork page
Visitation to See Elizabeth
Piero di Cosimo (Florentine painter, 1462-1521),
The Visitation with St. Nicholas and St. Anthony Abbot (c.
1490), oil on panel 184.2 x 188.6, National Gallery of Art,
Washington DC. See left corner detail of St. Nicholas with 3 gold
balls reading from Proverbs (Wisdom of Solomon).
Shepherds in the Fields, Annunciation to the Shepherds
Annunciation to Shepherds, 1480 stained glass panel (East
Harling, Norfolk: East Window, D1),
Arnold Friberg,
Shepherds in the Fields (American illustrator, 1913- )
Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937),
The Annunciation of
the Shepherds (c. 1895), Oil on canvas, 13 x 16 inches,
Pensler Galleries.
Benozzo Gozzoli,
Vigil of the Shepherds (Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence),
fresco.
Detail.
Taddeo Gaddi (1326-30),
Annunciation to the Shepherds (1328-30), fresco, Santa Croce,
Florence

Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898),
"Nativity" (1875), William Morris stained glass window, St. Martins
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Edward Burne-Jones
Angel appearing to shepherds, stained glass window, Lanercost
Priory, Lanercost, Cumbria, UK, William Morris company.
"Nativity" (1875), William Morris stained glass window, St. Martins in the
Bull Ring, Birmingham city center, south window.
Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp Dutch painter)
William Blake,
Annunciation to the Shepherds, ink and
watercolor, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester,
Illustration to Milton's "On the morning of Christ's nativity".
The Thomas set.
Rembrandt,
The Angel appears to the shepherds (c. 1640-42). Pen and
brush drawing; 17.6 x 20 cm; Hamburg, Kunsthalle.
Another.
The
Annunciation of the Shepherds from the Huntington Manuscript
HM1173, a Book of Hours made about 1460-1465. Attributed to Simon
Marmion
Horenbout:
Annunciation of the Shepherds, Hours of the Virgin,
Fol.91r British Museum.
Paul de Limbourg of Limbourg Brothers,
Annunciation To the Shepherds (1411-16), Tres Riches Heures
du Duc de Berry MS 65 in Musee Conde at Chantilly.
The Hague,
Manuscript KB, 74 G 39, Book of Hours (Hours of Catharine de
Medici; use of Rome). France; c. 1560
Cornelis de Visscher (1619-1662),
The Annunciation to the Shepherds (1655-57), etching. Royal
Academy of the Arts, London.
Adoration of the Shepherds

Gerard (Gerrit) van Honthorst (1590–1656),
Adoration of the Shepherds (Die Anbetung der Hirten, Adorazione
dei Pastori, 1622). 164 x 190 cm,
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne.
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Gerard (Gerrit) van Honthorst (1590–1656)
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Adoration of the Shepherds (Die Anbetung der Hirten,
Adorazione dei Pastori, 1622). Óleo sobre lienzo.164 x
190 cm, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne.
Another
Another p. 10
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Adorazione
del Bambino (Adoration of the Children, 1620) Galería de los Uffizi. Florencia.
Italia. I think this is one of the most beautiful paintings of
all, with the beautiful faces of children on the left, Mary on
the right, overlooked by Joseph, background left.
- L'Adoration
des Bergers (1619-1620), Óleo sobre lienzo. 338,5 x 198,5
cm. Corredor de Vasari. Galería de los Uffizi. Florencia.
Italia
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Die Anbetung der Hirten.
(1632), Öl/Lwd., 121x100 cm, Christie's London
Andrea Mantegna (Italian, Paduan, born no later than
1430, died 1506), The
Adoration of the Shepherds (shortly after 1450), Tempera on
canvas, transferred from wood; Overall 15 3/4 x 21 7/8 in. (40 x
55.6 cm); painted surface 14 7/8 x 21 in. (37.8 x 53.3 cm).
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Matthias Stom(er) (ca. 1600-1650),
The Adoration of the Shepherds (ca. 1640/50), Oil on canvas,
117/166 cm, Liechtenstein Museum Wien
El Greco,
Adoration of the Shepherds (1574-75), altarpiece.
Pieter Fransz. de Grebber
(Dutch painter, c. 1600-1652), The
Adoration of the Shepherds, c.
1625–30. Signed with initials: P.DG. Oil on panel, Private
Collection, Madrid; Nicholas M. Acquavella Galleries; BJU, 1962.
Carl Heinrich Bloch (Danish painter, 1834-1890)
- Shepherds
Abiding in the Fields, National Historic Museum, Friederiksborg Palace,
Hillerød, Denmark.
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Nativity, National Historic Museum, Friederiksborg Palace,
Hillerød, Denmark.
- Manger
Scene, oil on copper plate.
- Mary and
Elisabeth, oil on copper plate.
- The
Annunciation, oil on copper plate.
- The
Nativity (1881), etching
- The
Shedding of Innocents, oil on canvas
Ron DiCianni,
Heaven's
Loss (angel meditating at manger, contemporary)
Giorgione (Venetian 1477/78-1510),
The Adoration
of the Shepherds (1505-10), oil on panel 98.8 x 110.5.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Detail on bottom right
could be cropped for good composition of smaller picture.
Jacopo Tintoretto (Italian "Mannerist" painter,1519-1594),
"Adoration of the Shepherds" or "The Nativity" (c.
1579-81). Oil on canvas. Scuola di San Rocco, Venice.
Another.
Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652),
Adoration of the Shepherds, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Le Nain. The Le Nain Brothers: Antoine (about 1600-48),
Louis (about 1603-48), Mathieu (about 1607-77)
Incarnation Window, Cathedral of Chartes, France.
Detail.
Dante Gabriel Rosetti (British Pre-Raphaelite painter,
1828-1882),
The Adoration (1858-64), watercolor on paper, 406x292 mm,
from the Seed of David. Tate Collection.
The Magi or Wise Men

"The
Journey of the Magi" (1894) by James
Jacques Joseph Tissot (French painter and illustrator,
1836-1902), oil on canvas, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
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Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337),
Adoration of the Magi. The Star of Bethlehem is shown as a
comet. Giotto had witnessed Halley's Comet in 1301.
Rembrandt,
"The Adoration of the Magi" (1632), Oil on paper pasted on
canvas, 45x39 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Notice the
tenderness of the wise man kneeling before the baby!
Tissot,
The Journey of the Magi (c. 1894),
oil on canvas, 70.8 x
101.6 cm, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Another.
Another.
St. Albans Psalter,
The Journey of the Kings, Matthew 2:9. Quire 2. Page 24
commentary. created at St. Abans Abbey essentially by Geoffrey de
Gorham (or Gorron), Abbot of St. Albans (1119-46)
Burne-Jones,
Adoration of the Magi (1888-91), tapestry of wisemen and holy
family.
Star of Bethlehem, watercolor, Birmingham Gallery
El Greco,
Adoration of the Wisemen ().
Diego Velázquez.
The Adoration of the Magi (1619), oil on canvas. Museo
del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Rogier van der Weyden,
Adoration of the Magi, central panel, St Columba Altarpiece
(c. 1455), oil on oak panel, 138 x 153 cm (central), 138 x 70 cm
(each wing), Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Hans Memling. Triptych: The Nativity,
The
Adoration of the Magi, The Presentation in the Temple.
c.1470s. Oil on panel. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Sandro Botticelli,
Adoration of the Magi (1475-76), oil on panel, 111x134 cm,
Uffizi, Florence.
Another.
Another.
Another.
Antonio Allegri Correggio (1489–1534)
Adoration of the Magi (c 1517) Galleria Nazionale, Parma
Albrecht Durer,
Adoration of the Magi (1504), 76x89 cm. Uffizi, Florence.
Another.
Another.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo,
Adoration of the Magi ()
Jan Bruegel the Elder,
Adoration of the Magi (1598-1600), State Hermitage Museum,
St. Petersburgh
Pieter Brueghel the Younger.
Adoration of the Magi. Oil on canvas,
transferred from panel. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Another.
Bernardo Cavallino,
Adoration by the Magi (1640), Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Vienna
Cosme Tura (1430-1495),
Adoration of the Wisemen (1474), Ferrara.
Fra Angelico
- Adoration of the Magi (1433-34), Tempera on wood, Museo
Diocesano, Cortona.
- Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi,
Adoration
of the Magi (c. 1440/1460), National Gallery of Art,
Washington DC.
Another.
- Fra Angelico and Benozzo Gozzoli.
Adoration of the Magi. (1438-1444/45). Fresco. Cell 39. San
Marco, Florence, Italy.
Another.
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Linaiuoli Tabernacle: Adoration of the Magi. Predella.
1433. Tempera on panel. 39 x 56 cm. Museo di San Marco,
Florence, Italy.
Another.
Filippino Lippi,
Adoration of the Magi (1496), oil on panel, 258x243 cm,
Uffizi, Florence.
Another.
Francisco de Zurbarán,
Adoration of the Three Kings (1638), Musée des Beaux-Arts,
Grenoble.
Hans Holbein,
Adoration of the Three Kings (1521-1522), Freiburg im
Breisgau, Munich.
Domenico Ghirlandaio,
The Adoration of the Magi (1488) Spedale degli Innocenti,
Florence.
Adoration of the Magi. Panel from a Roman sarcophagus, 4th
century CE. From the cemetary of St. Agnes in Rome; former museum
of Benedict XIV. Museo Pio Christiano
Leonardo da Vinci,
Adoration of the Magi (c. 1481-82), underpainting on panel,
97 x 96", Uffizi, Florence. Very yellowed in appearance.
Dirk Bouts,
Adoration of the Magi (1467-68). 63x62 cm, Alte Pinakothek,
Munich.
Andrea Mantegna,
Adoration of the Magi (1462), Tempera on panel,
76 × 76.5 cm, Uffizi, Florence.
Another.
Leonaert Bramer,
Adoration of the Magi (c. 1633-35).
Benozzo Gozzoli
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Three Wise Men or Procession of the Magi
(1459-1461), fresco in the Magi Chapel of Palazzo
Medici-Riccardi, Florence.
- Fra Angelico and Benozzo Gozzoli.
Adoration of the Magi. (1438-1444/45). Fresco. Cell 39. San
Marco, Florence, Italy.
Affresco
La
processione dei Magi (part.), Firenze, Palazzo Medici -
Riccardi.
Another.
Jan Gossaert,
Adoration of the Kings (c. 1505), National Gallery, London.
Gentile da Fabriano,
Adoration of the Magi (1423), Tempera on panel, 203 × 282 cm,
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Hieronymus Bosch,
Adoration of the Magi, center panel of triptych (c. 1495),
The Bronchorst Bosschuyse Triptych. Prado Museum, Madrid.
Another.
Collection in Wikipedia article
Adoration of the Magi.
Pictures.
Zanobi Strozzi (Italian, 1412-1468),
The Adoration of the Magi (ca. 1435-40), Tempera on panel,
Overall, 8 x 9 in.; picture surface, 7 1/2 x 18 5/8 in. The
National Gallery, London
Giotto di Bondone,
Three Kings (detail). Cappella degli Scrovegni all'Arena,
Padua.
Sassetta,
Journey of the Magi (c. 1435), Tempera and gold on panel,Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, Originally the upper part of a small "Adoration of the Magi"
now in the Palazzo Chigi-Saraceni, Siena.
Musée national du Moyen Âge — Thermes et Hôtel de Cluny, Paris, France,
stained glass window,
Three Magi before Herod (early 15th Century)
Miniature of the Magi and of Herod (early 13th Century), Psalter at Oxford,
in the British Museum.
Madonna and Child and Christian Postage Stamps
See special page devoted to
Madonna and Child Paintings and Christmas Postage Stamps
Jesus' Childhood
- Gerard (Gerrit) van Honthorst (1590–1656). The Childhood
of Christ (c. 1620), Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
De jeugd van Jezus
(1620), olie op doek, Hermitage, St.
Petersburg.
- Camille Boiry,
The Child Jesus in His Workshop (1909), oil on canvas, .38m
x .46m, Galerie Madaba.
- William Holman Hunt,
The Shadow of
Death (1870-73), oil on canvas, 212 x 167.6 cm,
Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester. Realistic painting
of adult Jesus in carpenter shop with arms spread as if on
cross.
- Sir John Everett Millais.
Christ in the House of His Parents (1849), Oil on canvas.
Tate Gallery, London, UK. Jesus is a teenager in this picture.
- Edward Stott,
The Carpenter's Shop (c. 1913), oil on board. Royal Academy
of Arts, London.
- J.J. Tissot
- William James Web,
Jesus Grows Up (1894), bw drawing of Jesus in carpenter
shop
- Carl Heinrich Bloch,
Teaching in
the Temple, boy Jesus in temple, oil on copper plate.
St. Joseph

Guido Reni, "St. Joseph with Infant Christ in his Arms"
(1620s), oil on canvass 126x101 cm, Hermitage Museum, St.
Petersburg.
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Flight to Egypt
Rembrandt
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Flight to Egypt, Crossing a Brook, etching and drypoint,
97x145 mm, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh.
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Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, (1647)
- The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Panel,
1647. Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland
- Flight into Egypt (1625), 26x24 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts,
Tours
Others
- Henry Ossawa Tanner,
Flight into Egypt (n.d.), Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Albrecht Dürer,
Flight into Egypt (c. 1494-1497), Nürnberg, Augsburg,
Venedig, Niederlande
- Wolf Huber,
Flight into Egypt (1525-30), 56x57 cm, Gemäldegalerie,
Berlin. Colorful!
- Fra Angelico,
Flight into Egypt (1450), 38.5 × 37 cm, Museo di San Marco,
Florence.
- George Hitchcock,
Flight into Egypt, contemporary
- Carl Heinrich Block,
Flight into
Egypt, oil on copper plate.
Links
to images of the Flight Into Egypt, Textweek.com
Wikipedia:
Flight into Egypt paintings
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