The Nativity of the Lord (5)
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
A
15th century
German
Adoration of the Christ Child
Nativity portal
from the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
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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
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