Hope you get a smile out of these. Each painting seemed to tell me a different story than intended – so I added text to reveal what I saw. (I respect the paintings, and placed the captions so as not to obscure the characters and details.)

And please – I’m not knocking it – Christmas really is a wonderful time of year. I see complete strangers being kinder, more cheerful, and ready to talk to each other in a way they never otherwise would. My best Christmas was in Sydney, 1983. As I traveled alone through that huge, usually unfriendly city, my heart lit up as, one after the other, *everyone* I met was cheerful and kind and – for a brief few hours – totally my friend.

May it always be so!!

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Merry Clickmas

Detail from The Allendale Nativity; ‘Adoration of the Shepherds’ by Giorgione. (Modernized)

Parenthood 101

‘The Adoration of the Shepards’ by Mattia Preti

A Miracle!

Barocci, Federico ~ The Nativity, 1597, oil on canvas, Museo del Prado, Madrid

The details are extraordinary.

Always Read the Small-print

‘Holy Nativity’ by Pierre (French artist. I know no more.)

He was *really* with the light thing, eh?

The Original Christmas Gift

My favourite. This is utterly adorable. Those faces!!
This guy was genius.
I thought it was modern, but no.

‘The Adoration of the Child’
GERRIT VAN HONTHORST

There’s One in Every Crowd

Artist: I’ve yet to track this one done, curiously enough.

Will try again.

A New Light in the World

Artist: Antonio da Correggio. ‘Nativity (Adoration of the Shepherds)’

Osram used many top-fight artists from the very beginning of its advertising drive. The images were all extraordinarily beautiful.
Which, I guess, is why I was reminded of those works of art in this.

The light really is beautiful.

Silent Night

Artist: Anton Raphael Mengs

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