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- 2023New Year’s card 2024: Homage to Charlotte Perriand
- 1985Our New Year cards
- 1992New Year’s card 1992. Homage to Piero della Francesca
- 1993New Year’s card 1993: Jan, Johan and Hilde
- 1994New Year’s card 1994. Homage to Ingres and Man Ray
- 1995New Year’s card 1995. Homage to Nefertiti
- 1996News Year’s card 1996. Homage to the Madonna della Misericordia
- 1997New Year’s card 1997: homage to Botticelli and Rineke Dijkstra
- 1998New Year’s card 1998. Homage to Alfred Stevens
- 1999New Year’s card 1999. 119991119199. Homage to Richard Avedon
- 2000New Year’s card 2000. Homage to Tina Modotti
- 2003New Year’s card 2003. Homage to Tiziano and Tintoretto
- 2004New Year’s card 2004. ‘Ich bin ein Buch wenn Du mich liesst’
- 2005New Year’s card 2005. ‘Learned to write the pain of loss in sand’
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News Year’s card 1996. Homage to the Madonna della Misericordia
1996
The ‘Madonna della Misericordia’, or ‘Madonna of Mercy’, is a classic theme in Italian medieval and early-renaissance painting. I thought it was a beautiful image: Mary enfolding her meek followers in her mantle.
I interpreted this theme as Mary the bookshop owner protectively holding her cloak over her books, a threatened species.