From the First Sunday of Advent · 29 November
Advent with the Masters
One of the Church’s great paintings each morning of Advent, from the First Sunday to Christmas, chosen by the liturgical calendar and captioned only from the holding museum’s own record.
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The tree is dead, all thorns and bare limbs, and Our Lady stands in it holding the Christ Child, as if she had grown there. The Thyssen-Bornemisza ties the work to the Confraternity of Our Lady of the Dry Tree, to which Christus and his wife belonged.
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One painting a morning
Each day of Advent brings one sacred painting, with the feast, the color of the day and the Scripture the scene depicts.
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