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