The Angel Tree: Celebrating Christmas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Book

Pre-owned - Very Good Condition- Hardcover with dust jacket ( dust jacket edges show usage) The Angel Tree by Linn Howard , Mary Jane Poole Published 2011 128 pages The Angel Tree: Celebrating Christmas at The Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases the magnificent collection of Neapolitan Baroque angels and crèche figures that has thrilled visitors from across the country each Christmas season for more than 50 years. More than 50 angels and 100 crèche figures, many sculpted by major artists of the period, represent all who came to worship the Babe. This is a true family book, starting with the story of the Nativity and then focusing on the scene in large, gloriously reproduced pictures of the angels and of townspeople and animals, shepherds and their flocks, kings and grand ladies.