The Nativity

Item

Title
en The Nativity
Identifier
1903-04.1002.1
Creator
Botticelli, Sandro
Date Created
en [1482-1485]
Extent
en 76 cm x 76 cm (unframed)
en 116.84 cm x 116.84 cm (framed)
Is Part Of
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Source
https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/collection/10982
(Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)
Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
(Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)
Date Valid
en 14 November 1903
Abstract
en The real knock-down blow was to find, hanging opposite to the great Chigi Botticelli, that poor school piece, a Nativity and Shepherds, from the Duca di Brindisi’s (Palazzo Antinori, Florence).
Provenance
en Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the collection of the Duke of Brindisi in the Palazzo Antinori, Florence in May 1900 for about $40,000 through Richard Norton (1872–1918), art historian and archaelogist.
depicts
Virgin Mary
Christ Child
Christ as the Good Shepard
Joseph
Subject
Jesus Christ--Nativity
Landscapes in art
Medium
oil paint (paint)
tempera
panel (wood by form)
Format
Painting
Item sets
What Mary Saw
Media
botticelli_nativity

Export

Tags

Mary Dislikes