Christmas Eve — John Everett Millais

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Silent Prayer — Stanley Spencer

Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas — Marcel Duchamp

Waiting for Christmas — Grandma Moses

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The House Opposite — Leonora Carrington

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Reading the Letter — Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky

What the Water Gave Me — Frida Kahlo

“Christmasse-Eve, Another Ceremonie” — Robert Herrick

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The Nativity — William Blake

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Young Man Reading by Candlelight — Matthias Stom

Allegory of Winter — Remedios Varo

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — Arturo Souto

“I am more tremulous than shaken reeds” — Sappho

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The Reading — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Death of Sappho — Gustave Moreau

The One Consolation — Giorgio de Chirico

“Pain in Pleasure” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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