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My favourite winter artworks

Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones selects his favourite festive artworks
  • A wise man's painting: Sandro Botticelli's The Adoration of the Kings

    In the last in his series of favourite wintry artworks, Jonathan Jones marvels at the towering majesty of Botticelli's The Adoration of the Kings, which won the artist 'gifts' from the Medici family

  • The Son shines in The Adoration of the Shepherds by Guido Reni

    In the runup to Christmas, art critic Jonathan Jones is selecting his favourite wintry works. Today it's this huge heartwarming canvas, as bright and bold as street theatre

  • Night of revelation: The Nativity at Night by Geertgen tot Sint Jans

    Continuing with his series of favourite wintry artworks, Jonathan Jones feels a warm glow looking at the tender beauty of Geertgen tot Sint Jans's The Nativity at Night

  • Carlo Crivelli's homespun Annunciation

    Jonathan Jones continues his series of best-loved wintry artworks with Carlo Crivelli's The Annunciation with Saint Emidius, a 15th-century reimagining of the angel's message to Mary set in idealised Italy

  • Dashing through the snow: Francisco de Goya's Snowstorm (La Nevada)

    In the latest of his series of favourite wintry artworks, Jonathan Jones admires the compassion and elegance of Goya's Snowstorm, an oil-painted paean to Spain's heroic underclass

  • Venus Frigida: Rubens's portrait of love in a cold climate

    Jonathan Jones shivers in sympathy with Rubens's nude Mediterranean goddess, who finds herself far from home in the inhospitable north

  • Avalanche in the Grisons! JMW Turner paints up a storm

    Continuing his series of wintry artworks, Jonathan Jones is blown over by the sublime force of JMW Turner's Swiss snowslide – The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons

  • The Stove in the Studio (c1865) by Paul Cézanne

    Paul Cézanne braves Paris's bleak midwinter

    The latest of Jonathan Jones's favourite wintry artworks is Cézanne's The Stove in the Studio, a shiver-inducing evocation of the life of a starving artist in winter

  • Piss Flowers by Helen Chadwick

    Wee wish you a Merry Christmas: Helen Chadwick’s Piss Flowers

    Jonathan Jones continues his seasonal selection of favourite wintry artworks with Helen Chadwick's Piss Flowers – haunting alien cities created in the snow using a unique methodology

  • Piero della Francesca, The Nativity (1470-75)

    A note-perfect Nativity by Piero della Francesca

    Jonathan Jones continues his seasonal series of best-loved wintry artworks with a 15th-century reimagining of the birth of Jesus, set against a tranquil Tuscan tableaux

  • Hunters in the snow: Pieter Bruegel's pastoral idyll

    Jonathan Jones continues his selection of favourite wintry artworks with Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting of a group of shivering hunters returning to home and hearth

  • Gerhard Richter's Candle (1982)

    Candle: Gerhard Richter's Christmas spirit burns bright

    In today's wintry artwork, Jonathan Jones explains why Gerhard Richter's devotional painting of a candle has him all aglow

  • Morning: William Hogarth's love letter to London life

    Jonathan Jones admires The Four Times of Day: Morning, William Hogarth's wry 1736 portrait of London life – and carousing underclass

  • Ice and easy: Henry Raeburn's Skating Minister

    Throughout December, Jonathan Jones is selecting his top wintry artworks. Here, he admires Henry Raeburn's The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch

  • Winter Landscape: Casper David Friedrich's seasonal ghost story

    Jonathan Jones is picking his top wintry artworks. Here he explains why Winter Landscape, a painting by Casper David Friedrich, both enchants and chills

  • Grotto in an Iceberg by Herbert Ponting

    Freeze frame: how Herbert Ponting captured Antarctica

    Every day in the run-up to Christmas, Jonathan Jones is picking his favourite wintry artworks. Today, he explores one of the most beautiful images ever taken of the eerie, icy world that would claim the lives of Captain Scott and his party

  • the Limbourg brothers’ illustration for February

    Cold comfort: the artist's love affair with winter

    From Rubens's shivering Venus to Helen Chadwick's Piss Flowers, artists have long been fascinated by the coldest months. Jonathan Jones walks through a winter wonderland

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