A kneeling woman and a sitting man are on either side of a nude baby boy as a bearded man, God, and winged angels hover in the sky over a deep landscape. This vertical panel has a rounded top. The people all have pale skin with pink cheeks, white-blond or gray hair, and wear robes in shades of carnation pink, azure blue, and buttercup yellow. The woman is larger in scale than the man sitting opposite her, and she has notably pale, white-colored skin. In the right half of the painting, she kneels facing inward over the baby with her palm and fingertips together in front of her chest. She…
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The Nativity, with God the Father Surrounded by Angels and Cherubim

Francesco di Giorgio Martini (Sienese, 1439 - 1501)

c. 1470

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
joined NGA and MMA panels: 83.5 x 57.5 cm (32 7/8 x 22 5/8 in.) ; framed: 97.8 x 73.7 x 4.8 cm (38 1/2 x 29 x 1 7/8 in.) ; only NGA lunette (oval): 36.6 x 51.7 cm (14 7/16 x 20 3/8 in.)
Culture
Sienese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941.100.2; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.8
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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