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A woman kneels in front of a baby under a stone structure to the right as a man sits and dozes in front of a landscape to the left in this wide, horizontal painting. All three people have pale, peachy skin with rosy cheeks and gold, flat, disk-like halos. To our right, the woman’s head and shoulders are covered with a white cloth as she crosses her hands across her chest. She wears a rose-pink dress under a voluminous, sky-blue robe lined with spruce green. The robe puddles on the floor behind her feet, and one section has been pulled forward to be used as a blanket for the baby. The child…

The Nativity

Fra Filippo Lippi (Florentine, c. 1406 - 1469)

probably c. 1445 · oil and tempera (?) on panel

National Gallery of Art · Samuel H. Kress Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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