In month of December students will be making art projects focused on the anticipation of Christmas. In this first week we looked the painting by Jan Van Eyck, The Dresden Triptych painted in 1437. A triptych is a paint or low relief sculpture with three parts. In Mr. Van Eyck painting, to the right is Mary in a blue dress pregnant with Jesus. In the center Mary is in red and holding Jesus, to the left St. Michael and a priest. We talked about the first Christmas and how the Nativity might be represented in a three paneled picture of their creation. Materials
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