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The Twelfth Night Feast is a relatively large 1662 oil painting by Jan Steen, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which bought it in 1945. [1] The picture depicts the Twelfth Night celebrations marking the end of the Christmas festivities and the beginning of Epiphany. It is the date when the Three Kings arrived at the stable in Bethlehem ...
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Viola (disguised as Cesario) falls in love with the Duke Orsino ...
Henry Fuseli RA (/ ˈfjuːzəli, fjuːˈzɛli / FEW-zə-lee, few-ZEL-ee; [1][2][3] German: Johann Heinrich Füssli [ˈjoːhan ˈhaɪ̯nʁɪç ˈfyːsli]; 7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his works depict supernatural experiences, such as The ...
Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 73.7 cm × 92.1 cm (29.01 in × 36.26 in) Location. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Accession. 472.1941. The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, painted in June 1889. It depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de ...
The King Drinks. (Jordaens, Brussels) The King Drinks is a 1640 oil painting on canvas by the Flemish Baroque artist Jacob Jordaens, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. It shows the Twelfth Night king. Jordaens's earlier painting of the same subject, executed in 1638, is in the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall (25 July 1829 – 11 February 1862), better known as Elizabeth Siddal (a spelling she adopted in 1853 [ a ]), was an English artist, art model, and poet. Siddal was perhaps the most significant of the female models who posed for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Their ideas of female beauty were fundamentally influenced ...
The King's Tart (1774) by Jean-Baptiste Greuze. The Kings' Tart or The Twelfth Night Cake is a 1774 genre painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, showing the French tart then traditionally baked for Epiphany to celebrate the arrival of the Three Kings. Since 1836 it has been in the Musée Fabre, in Montpellier.
Little Christmas (Irish: Nollaig na mBan, lit. 'Women's Christmas'), also known as Old Christmas, Green Christmas, or Twelfth Night, [1] is one of the traditional names among Irish Christians and the Amish for 6 January, which is also known more widely as the Feast of the Epiphany, celebrated after the conclusion of the twelve days of Christmastide.