Painted with royal blue, scarlet red, mint and olive green, and tones of soft brown on vellum, a woman lies next to a baby in a boxy manger as angels and monks look on in this illuminated manuscript. The woman is separated from the angels by a rocky, roof-like structure, and the monks are in a row of arches below. They all have pale skin. The woman, Mary, wears a voluminous blue robe over a vivid red dress. Her head is covered by the robe, and she has a gold halo. She reclines in a cocoon-like oval crisscrossed with medium brown lines on a lighter brown background. A baby wrapped tightly in…
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The Nativity with Six Dominican Monks

Master of Imola (Italian, active 1265 - 1280)

Italian 13th Century

1265/1274

Medium
miniature on vellum
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
overall: 46.8 x 36 cm (18 7/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Culture
Italian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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