Master Paintings of Christmas

These iconic painted images continue to resonate centuries later, due not only to their subject-matter but also for their formal and aesthetic appeal. Excerpted  from The Guardian, Culture.

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Caspar David Friedrich, Winter Landscape, 1811
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Giotto, Nativity, 1303-1305
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Leonardo da Vinci, The Adoration of the Magi, 1482
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Claude Monet, Snow Scene at Argenteuil, 1875
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Peiter Breughel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, 1565