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The Nativity or birth of Jesus Christ is found in the biblical gospels of Matthew and Luke.The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in Roman-controlled Judea, that his mother, Mary, was engaged to a man named Joseph, who was descended from King David and was not his biological father, and that his birth was caused by divine intervention.
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The birth of Christ represented in the Nativity stands for the birth of Christianity, a new era, which came with the 'ruination' of the old eras of Judaism and paganism. Following this, the " Adoration of the Magi " stands for the spread and acceptance of Christianity all over the world, with each of the three kings representing one of the ...
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Rutland Boughton, English composer and founder of the original Glastonbury Festival, wrote a very popular Nativity opera in 1915 called Bethlehem.In 1926, in sympathy with the General Strike and the miners' lockout, he restaged it in London, in modern dress, with Jesus born in a miner's cottage and Herod as the top-hatted capitalist, flanked by soldiers and police.
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.
Pages in category "Nativity of Jesus in the New Testament" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Nativity of Jesus, the Gospel stories of the birth of Jesus Christ; Nativity of Jesus in art, any depiction of the nativity scene Nativity, a 1420 panel painting by Robert Campin; Nativity, a devotional mid-1450s oil-on-wood panel painting by Petrus Christus; Nativity, a painting finished around 1529–1530 by Antonio da Correggio; Nativity, c ...