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Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Back to main page for this exhibition Back to images from this exhibition 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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