The Christmas Story

In works of art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (h/t The New Yorker):

If you’re not in town to visit these paintings in person, you can view them via the museum’s interactive feature “The Christmas Story,” illustrated with works in its collection and narrated in plummy tones by its former director Philippe de Montebello. Much of the the text and narration are borrowed from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. The music, like the objects in the hall where the museum’s twenty-foot spruce tree currently stands, is medieval.