Images of the Nativity, Part 1

Byzantine Images:

• The Nativity (Monastery of Daphni, Attica), 11th c.
  
• The Birth of Jesus (1291), mosaic in Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome
  
• Nativity (Byzantine Museum, Athens), 1783
  
• Nativity, Russian icon, 16th c.

Western Images (in chronological order):

• Anonymous Master (Spanish), Nativity (1200-50), Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
  
• Early medieval English church nativity scenes
  
• Anonymous Master (Italian), The Nativity with Six Dominican Monks (c. 1275), National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection
  
• Duccio di Buoninsegna, Nativity (1308-11), National Gallery of Art, Washington
  
• Giotto di Bondone, Nativity panel (1304-06), fresco series in the Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
  
• Bartolo di Fredi, The Adoration of the Shepherds (14th century), The Cloisters, New York
  
• Anonymous (French illuminator), Nativity scene, Très Belles Heures of the Duc the Berry (1380-90), Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
  
• Anonymous (Dutch illuminator), Nativity scene, Très Belles Heures du Duc de Berry (c. 1400), Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Madama, Turin