The Christmas Story - Hardcover

Metropolitan Museum Of Art

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810980029 ISBN 13: 9780810980020

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2009

Synopsis

The timeless story of Christmas is beautifully retold through paintings by some of the world’s greatest artists. Borrowing from The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s extensive and rich collection, The Christmas Story depicts the Nativity through visual narration with the aid of paintings by, among others, Petrus Christus, Gerard David, and Hans Memling. Gold accents on the book jacket and interior pages make for a glorious and lush book.
 
The artworks, sensitively coupled with excerpts from the King James Version of the Bible, create a book that will be treasured by the entire family for years to come.

About this title

About the Author:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest museum in the Western Hemisphere and the world’s most encyclopedic art museum. Founded in 1870, the Museum embraces more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present, in all artistic media and at the highest levels of creative excellence.

Review:

"A beautiful, sophisticated merging of art and text that could be used in church programs on Christmas Eve or as an introduction to medieval and Renaissance painting for older students." (Kirkus)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0810980029
• ISBN 13: 9780810980020
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 24