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4th-century sarcophagus, Milan; one of the earliest Nativity images. The earliest representations of the Nativity itself are very simple, just showing the infant, tightly wrapped, lying near the ground in a trough or wicker basket. The ox and ass are always present, even when Mary or any other human is not.
The Nativity story has 7 scenes, and from the Annunciation to the Return from Egypt takes 13. Eadwine Psalter , English manuscript of the mid-12th century, the prefatory cycle now dispersed Scrovegni Chapel by Giotto, a large combined Life of Christ and of the Virgin in fresco with nearly forty narrative scenes.
It depicts the nativity of Jesus, with saints Francis of Assisi and Lawrence among other figures surrounding Mary and the newborn Jesus. [3] [2] The painting is about 2.7 metres high and two metres wide. [4] On the night of 17–18 October 1969, [5] two thieves stole the painting from its home in the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo. [4]
This category is for the Nativity of Jesus in art. See also other sub-categories of the parent, like Category:Adoration of the Magi in art and Category:Adoration of the Shepherds in art. Here, "art" means the visual arts, not music or drama.
The Nativity is an oil painting by Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca, dated to 1470–75. The painting depicts a scene from the birth of Jesus , and is one of the latest surviving paintings made by the artist before his death in 1492.
The canvas is divided into two parts. At the top, two angels on a platform of clouds and cherub heads observe the scene. Below, Mary and Joseph, accompanied by the ox and the donkey, barely visible, are in adoration before the Child Jesus, swaddled as he is described in the Gospel of Luke. In the background, a resplendent angel flies over the ...
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Nativity, c. mid-1450s. Oil on wood, 127.6 cm × 94.9 cm (50.2 in × 37.4 in), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The Nativity is a devotional mid-1450s oil-on-wood panel painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Petrus Christus. It shows a nativity scene with grisaille archways and trompe-l'œil sculptured reliefs.