Merry Christmas! For this year’s holiday episode we're looking at this kind of unusual Nativity scene jammed packed with the detail those Northern European Renaissance artists just loved!

We’ll find out how the birth of Christ went from early spring to late December, the story of the arch, and the mystery of the missing gold platter!

SHOW NOTES

“A Long Look” opening theme is "Easy" by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/2QGe6skVzSs and the closing music is “Bring a Torch Jeannette Isabella” performed by John Sayles http://www.jsayles.com/familypages/holidaymusic.htm

Episode music:

“Away in a Manger” and “Angels We Have Heard on High” performed by John Sayles  http://www.jsayles.com/familypages/holidaymusic.htm

“Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem” and “Teller of the Tales” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Artwork information  https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.47.html

“Early Netherlandish Painting”  https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/early-netherlandish-painting.pdf

“Petrus Christus: Renaissance Master of Bruges”  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Petrus_Christus_Renaissance_Master_of_Bruges

“Petrus Christus in Renaissance Bruges : An Interdisciplinary Approach” https://archive.org/details/petruschristusin0000unse/page/167/mode/1up

How Dec. 25 became Christmas The Christmas Story in Art 

https://www.history.com/news/why-is-christmas-celebrated-on-december-25

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/12/25/why-is-christmas-on-dec-25-a-brief-history-lesson-that-may-surprise-you/

Transcript available at https://alonglookpodcast.com/?p=2865