10 Great Artworks Inspired by Christmas

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