Nativity is the full account of the birth of Jesus. Augustus
issued an edict ordering a census of the Empire. Everyone had to return
to their home town. Joseph and Mary therefore returned to Bethlehem, native
town of Joseph. There was no room at the inn and so the child was born
in a stable (or cave). Jesus, wrapped in swaddling clothes, was placed
in a manger, where he was greeted by the shepherds and then by "the wise
men from the east".
The feast of Nativity was celebrated in the west on 25 December from
the middle of the IV century and in Constantinople from 379.
See: Albrecht Altdorfer The
Nativity, The Nativity
Hans Baldung The Nativity.
Fra Bartolommeo Nativity.
Alessandro Botticelli Mystic
Nativity.
François Boucher. The
Nativity. The Nativity.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The
Numbering at Bethlehem.
Robert Campin Nativity.
Caravaggio Nativity
with Saints Francis and Lawrence.
Petrus Christus The
Nativity. The
Annunciation and The Nativity.
Lucas Cranach the Elder The
Birth of Christ.
Gerard David. The
Nativity.
Duccio di Buoninsegna. Maestà:The
Birth of Christ.
Giotto. The Nativity.
The
Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds.
Matthias Grünewald. Nativity.
Jean Hey, Master of Moulin.The Nativity
of Cardinal Jean Rolin.
Pietro Lorenzetti. The
Nativity of the Virgin.
Lorenzo Lotto The Nativity.
Hans Memling Triptych:
The Nativity, The Adoration of the Magi, The Presentation in the Temple.
Antoine Pesne. Birth of Christ.
Piero della Francesca. The
Nativity.
Nicolas Poussin The
Nativity.
Russian Icon. Nativity of Christ.
Martin Schongauer. Nativity
and St. Anthony.
Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto. Nativity.
Rogier van der Weyden. Middelburg
Altarpiece. Nativity.