Christmas in Ritual and Tradition

ILLUSTRATIONS
THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI (Detail)
Gentile da Fabriano. (Florence: Accademia)

MADONNA AND CHILD
Albert Dürer

MADONNA ENTHRONED WITH SAINTS AND ANGELS
Pesellino. (Empoli Gallery)

JACOPONE IN ECSTASY BEFORE THE VIRGIN
From “Laude di Frate Jacopone da Todi” (Florence, 1490)

THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS
By Fouquet. (Musée Condé, Chantilly)

THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT: THE REST BY THE WAY
Master of the Seven Sorrows of Mary. (Also attributed to Joachim Patinir.) (Vienna: Imperial Gallery)

SINGING “VOM HIMMEL HOCH” FROM A CHURCH TOWER AT CHRISTMAS
By Ludwig Richter

THE NATIVITY
From Add. MS. 32454 in the British Museum. (French, 15th Century)

A NEAPOLITAN PRESEPIO
CALABRIAN SHEPHERDS PLAYING IN ROME AT CHRISTMAS
After an Etching by D. Allan. From Hone's “Every-day Book” (London, 1826)

ST. FRANCIS INSTITUTES THE PRESEPIO AT GRECCIO
By Giotto. (Upper Church of St. Francis, Assisi)p. 14

THE BAMBINO OF ARA COELI
THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS
From Broadside No. 305 in the Collection of the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House

THE SHEPHERDS OF BETHLEHEM
From “Le grant Kalendrier & compost des Bergiers” (N. le Rouge, Troyes, 1529)

THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI
Masaccio. (Berlin: Kaiser Friedrich Museum)

NEW YEAR MUMMERS IN MANCHURIA
An Asiatic example of animal masks

CHRISTMAS EVE IN DEVONSHIRE—THE MUMMERS COMING IN
THE GERMAN CHRISTMAS-TREE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
From an engraving by Joseph Kellner

CHRISTMAS MORNING IN LOWER AUSTRIA
By Ferdinand Waldmüller (b. 1793)

YORKSHIRE SWORD-ACTORS: ST. GEORGE IN COMBAT WITH ST. PETER
From an article by Mr. T. M. Fallow in The Antiquary, May, 1895

THE EPIPHANY IN FLORENCE
p. 15 p. 16 p. 17

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