Art for Advent: Advent at the Louvre

Welcome to Art for Advent 2022.
This year, we are celebrating “Advent at the Louvre.”
Visit Seeing Art History, each Sunday in advent, for an exploration of how these works of art give visual form to the spiritual wonders of the advent season by making the invisible visible.
First Sunday of Advent
Giulio Cesare Procaccini
The Annunciation
c. 1620
Second Sunday of Advent
Jusepe de Ribera
Adoration of the Shepherds
1650
Third Sunday of Advent
Rembrandt van Rijn
The Holy Family with Saint Anne
1640
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Georges de La Tour
Christ and Saint Joseph in the Carpenter's Studio
1642-1644