The Nativity

ca. 1500 (Renaissance)

86.4 cm 86.7 cm 1.3 cm

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In this “tondo” (circular painting) of the Nativity, the Virgin Mary kneels in adoration of the Christ Child while Saint Joseph is asleep in the background. At the right, the ox and ass, both present in the biblical accounts of the Nativity, look out from the door of a ruined...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 72, as Botticelli]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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