The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 24, 1970, Image 42
SEC. D, PAGE 8—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thurs., Dec. 24, 1970
Paintings Show
Sacred Message
Lives Anew
YESTERDAY AND TODAY,
Byzantine icons tell the Christ*
mas story. Like that sacred
story, the style of Byzantine art
is unchanging through the cen
turies, as these paintings illus
trate.
* * *
BYZANTINE ART of yesteryear
appears in the painting (far
loft), “Virgin and Child En
throned with Angels." By an
unknown Byzantine painter, it
is executed in tempera on wood,
with a gold ground. From the
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
gift of Lizzie Bliss, 1931.
* * *
NATIVITY SCENE (near left)
shows how iconography con
tinues the ancient Byzantine
style, with symbolic feeling. The
Madonna and Child are central
figures, Joseph and a shepherd
appear at the left and the man
ger is shown, with historical ac
curacy, as a cave in a rocky hill
side. This icon is the work of
John Papaspiliopoulos of the
Byzantine Icons Studio.
* * *
PAST AND PRESENT meet as
artists turn to a beloved subject,
the Madonna and Child. Out of
the past comes the painting at
top left. In a Byzantine style,
it's by an unknown Russian
painter in tempera on wood and
is inscribed in Slavonic, “Our
Lady of Kaza.” (From the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art, gift
of Mrs. Henry Morgenthau,
1933). How the Byzantine style
continues today is shown in the
icon at top right, created in
tempera by the contemporary
iconographer, John Papaspili
opoulos.
Christmas Day—Two
Dates In History
It was on Christmas Day in the
year 1646 that the truculent and
capable Peter Stuyvesant, with a
fleet of four little ships, sailed
for the new world to become di
rector general of New Amster
dam. The long, rough voyage
came to an end the following
May.
On Christmas Day in 1776,
Washington crossed the Dela
ware. December 23, 1783 he stood
before congress at Annapolis and
resigned his commission as com
mander-in-chief of the American
army. He arrived at Mount Vern
on on Christmas Eve, and the
next day was possibly the hap
piest one in his long and busy
life.
ABOUT WISE MEN
Except for the words of St.
Matthew, legend accounts for
the little that is known about
the wise men. One of the
legends says that the star
appeared to them once more,
near the end of their lives.
Prepare An Inviting Holiday Tray
An inviting Christmas touch is to have a hospitality tray for
everyone to help themselves. It makes it easy for you to offer a
gift to everyone who comes to visit during the holidays, from the
paper boy to a delivery man to the children next door. Set it near
the front door, in a foyer or in the living room.
For festive tray gifts, cut nylon net, in your favorite color, or
an assortment of Christmas colors,, into 4 inch squares. Put nut
and candies that keep well in the center. Gather up the corners
and tie with gold or silver cord. Put these packets bn a large tray.
They are decorative and inviting.
Dessert trays are the good answer for buffet parties. Take a
platter (your largest) center it with a gingerbread man and sur
round him with an assortment of surprises and sweets - hard and
soft candies, nuts, fruit and petits fours, Chrismas cookies, small
small pastries. The secret lies in having such a lavish display of
goodies that even after people have helped themselves once, the
tray still looks full.
PRETTY BAUBLE . . . Christmas tree decorations never
fail to excite the very young. Yet, they can be dangerous.
Children should be instructed to admire the tree all they wish
— but don’t touch!
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