Christmas is full of song, the scent of cinnamon, pine and oranges and is a visual feast too! Here are 10 of our favourite Christmas-inspired artworks.
Detail from Byzantine Magi taken from a Mosaic showing the Adoration of the Magi c. AD 526, in the church of San’Apollinare at Ravenna
The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius by Carlo Crivelli (1435-1495)
Mystic Nativity by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510)
The Annunciation by Gabriel Dante Rosetti (1828-1882)
Song of the Angels by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)
Detail from a Stained Glass window in St. Michael’s Church, Ormesby designed by Henry Holiday (1839-1927)
Madonna and Child by Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Modern Madonna and Child by Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951)
Madonna and Child by Henry Moore (1898-1986)
Virgin and Child by Chris Gollon