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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas (Calvin Coolidge)
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The Magi Following the star
Filippino Lippi (c. 1406 – 1469) Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Cathedral of Chartres The Incarnation Window (1150) detail left to right from bottom: Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Angels appear to Shepherds, Herod meets the Magi (2 panels), Adoration of the Magi and their Departure
Circle of Apostolos Krezias The Adoration of the shepherds. 2nd h. 18 c. Benaki museum
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682Madrid, Museo del Prado Madrid
Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio 1445, Museo del Prado Madrid Carlo Dolci 1649, National Gallery London
Journey of the Magi (top) and Adoration of the Magi (side) on a Limoges champlevé enamel chasse, ca 1200c (Musée de Cluny, Paris)
Adoration of the Child 1534 by Perino del VagaNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA Carl Heinrich Bloch (1834 – 1890)
Pietro da Cartona 1658, Prado Museum Madrid Mateo Cerezo (1637 – 1666) Prado Museum
Gentile da Fabriano 1423 Galleria Uffizi Firenze
Correggio Adorazione dei Magi, 1517 Milano, Pinacoteca di Brera
Abraham Hondius Adoration of the shepherds 1663 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The most celebrated work of art in the cathedral is the Shrine of the Three Kings, a large gilded sarcophagus dating from the 13th century, and the largest reliquary in the Western world. It is traditionally believed to hold the remains of the Three Wise Men, whose bones and 2,000-year-old clothes were discovered at the opening of the shrine in 1864.
Cologne, The Altarpiece of the Three Kings by Stephan Lochner (1400 – 1452)
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