As we continue to approach Christmas, now a week away, may I share with you today three samples of old-fashioned Christmas cards, popular in Malta and Europe. These were painted in watercolors by a Maltese artist George Apap, and he placed his work in a box with cut-outs of the different figures and background of each particular scene shown here. The first one shows the Nativity of Jesus.
The second one shows an altar boy preaching at the midnight Mass, a custom that is still popular in most parish churches. And the third one shows two children on a sofa reading the Christmas story among decorations all around their room. In the exhibition I saw a few years ago there was a collection of over 30 boxes with different Christmas scenes all painted in watercolors and placed in a box to create a 3-dimensional effect. (click on each photo to enlarge)
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