# The Nativity

- By: Lorenzo Lotto (Venetian, c. 1480 - 1556/1557)
- Date: 1523
- Medium: oil on panel
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 46 x 35.9 cm (18 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.) ; framed: 62.6 x 53.2 x 10.2 cm (24 5/8 x 20 15/16 x 4 in.)
- Culture: Venetian
- Credit line: Samuel H. Kress Collection
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.431.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/d33bbc5c-8152-4af1-9778-c3fc63020877/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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