The feast day of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of children, is celebrated today, the sixth of December.
Kolem Vánoc... Brno: Edice Dobré umení I, 1945. (Cotsen 46377)
St. Nicholas travels with two assistants and only one of them is carrying treats…
Maybe it shouldn’t be taken for granted that piles of presents with YOUR name will appear under the tree.
Is it time to admit you slipped kale under the table to the dog during dinner when everyone was arguing about the election? Or that you played video games your mother said were off-limits at your best friend’s house all the time?
It may be too late. So where IS he going?
The good news is that there are eighteen more days for everyone to clean up their acts before Christmas!
The prints were taken from Frantiska Doubrava’s suite of lithographs, Kolem vanoce [Around Christmas Time] (Brno: Edice Dobre umeni I, 1945). Cotsen 46377.
There was a demand for equal time for St. Nicholas this week to balance the previous coverage on Santa. This Sunday is the feast of St. Nicholas, so it's the time to pay tribute to Western civilization's other major dispenser of gifts to the naughty and nice. Santa Claus is not exactly a style icon in…
I received an inquiry from a woman who was hoping to obtain copies of a few missing illustrations in Hans Bruckl's Mein Buch, which she'd had as a girl in Belgium during World War II. She didn't know why they had been removed, but suspected that the portrait of Hitler she…
Christmas comes but once and year and when it does it brings....annual performance appraisals of children. This belief that St. Nicholas passes judgment on us may evaporate soon enough, but not before planting the idea that December means the person in authority gets to decide if you have been productive/nice…
Is it time to admit you slipped kale under the table to the dog during dinner when everyone was arguing about the election? Or that you played video games your mother said were off-limits at your best friend’s house all the time?
It may be too late. So where IS he going?![14312page[6]](https://i0.wp.com/blogs.princeton.edu/cotsen/wp-content/uploads/sites/88/2015/12/14312page6-265x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1)
