One good thing about living in Poland is that it's still reasonably easy to find Nativity Scene Christmas cards to send people at Christmas. Really like the one above as it seems to have a special Eastern flavour.
In my native Britain, it's not that easy to find such beautiful Nativity Scene Christmas cards due to politically-'correct' censorship in the mainline shops (people are frightened of 'offending' Muhammadans; dogmatic atheists etc.).
In Britain, many people are now forced to look for these kinds of Christmas cards in second-hand shops, or to get them from a church.
When I lived in my homeland, I used to get them from one of the Society of St. Piux X churches.
Really like the Nativity Scene below as it seems to have a folk art kind of quality:
The last one is medieval, it must have been painted on parchment, in a book, the ornament must be the first letter in a paragraph of text, such as the Bible where the birth of Jesus is described.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the information, Olga, I know that you're really interested in medieval art.
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