The Nativity
Also titled De geboorte van Jezus
Hans Kamensetzer (died voor)
c. 1470
- Medium
- walnut (hardwood), linden, linen (material)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 60 cm x width 55 cm x depth 30 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The style of the famous Dutch sculptor Nicolaas Gerhaert van Leyden is reflected in the painstaking, calligraphic rendering of these figures, with their grace and spatial coherence. Van Leyden worked in Strasbourg and had a profound influence on Late Gothic German sculpture. The artist who made this beguiling nativity group was probably a pupil of his.
