Christmas
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Five of the 11 rooms of the exhibition From 0 to 100 invite viewers to tune into Christmastide.
There is an angel abroad, and a painting of St Barbara, on whose liturgical day (4 December) branches or twigs cut from fruit trees are placed in a vase of water; blossoming on Christmas Eve, they are said to bring good luck in the New Year.
There are representations of the Virgin, also with the Christchild, and nativity scenes as described in the Gospels of St Luke and St Matthew – as for instance the Nativity, the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Adoration of the three Magi, as well as the Flight to Egypt and the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.
Room 0
Holy Family with St Elizabeth and the Child John, between 1642 - 1652
Sébastien Bourdon
Inv. no. 278
Holy Family with St Elizabeth and the young St John the Baptist, c 1690
Giovanni Battista Gaulli called Baciccio
Inv. no. 565