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Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
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Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
Twenty-foot blue spruce with a collection of 18th-century Neapolitan angels and cherubs among its boughs and groups of realistic crèche figures flanking the Nativity scene at its base, displayed in the Museum's Medieval Sculpture Hall. Gift of Loretta Hines Howard.
Choir Screen from the Cathedral of Valladolid (behind the tree), 1763; Spanish
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of The William Randolph Hearst Foundation, 1956 (56.234.1)
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Neapolitan Characters and Followers of the Magi (detail), 18th century; Neapolitan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964
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Nativity Scene with Angels (detail), 18th century; Neapolitan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964
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Angel, 18th century; Neapolitan
Attributed to Giuseppe Sammartino (Italian, 1720–1793)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964
(64.164.8 a–c)
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Neapolitan Baroque Crèche (detail), 18th century; Neapolitan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964
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Angel, 18th century; Neapolitan
Attributed to Giuseppe Sammartino (Italian, 1720–1793)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964
(64.164.42 a–c)
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