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The Nativity

1590 · Ikonen-Museum, Recklinghausen

religious

The icon of Christ's Nativity unites a number of events related to the Christmas story on a narrow rectangular panel. It was without a doubt painted for the Feast-day Tier of an iconostasis. The composition follows a widespread Greek iconography, already to be seen in a 14th-century.

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The Nativity