Images discussed in previous pages:
- Sancta Sanctorum icon (6th century)
- 8th-century reliquary
- 12th-century relief from Notre-Dame la Grande, Poitiers
- Giotto's Arena Chapel Nativity (1303)
- Duccio's Nativity triptych -- early 14th
- Fra Angelico Nativity -- 1439-1443
- Bartolo di Fredi's Adoration of the Shepherds
- Rogier van der Weyden's Bladelin triptych and a polyptych from his workshop -- 15th cent.
- Nativity relief in Burgos Cathedral
- 15th-century sculpted crèche
- Nativity from the Huth Hours, 1480s
- Golden Legend: html or pdf
- A15th century German Adoration of the Christ Child
- Nativity portal from the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
- Click here for one from the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome
- Gilded chasse from Limoges
- A 1376 painting from central Italy
- A 1488 painting from Rome
- A simple and tranquil
composition with just one shepherd
- Use Google's image search for medieval or renaissance examples
- Search the Web Gallery of Art (type
"Nativity" in the field marked "text")
Texts referred to:
- Isaiah1:3 (cached).
- Nativity accounts in the gospels of Matthew (cached) and Luke (cached)
- "Bread of Life" discourse in John 6:51-58 (cached)
- Justin Martyr, nativity account from the Dialogue with Trypho
- The Protevangelium of James
- The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew (cached),
- St. Bridget of Sweden, vision of the Nativity