# Nativity

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## Artwork

- Artist: [PREVITALI, Andrea](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/previtali-andrea-rf8f027fcec3b58>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 133 x 215 cm

## Commentary

In the distance, we note the unusually cumbersome annunciation to the shepherds and the arrival of the midwives with the requisites for the Child&#39;s bath. The Infant is meanwhile adorned under the canopy of trees and planks juxtaposed with the ancient ruins.

## Related artworks

- [Madonna Baglioni](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/previtali-andrea-rf8f027fcec3b58/madonna-baglioni-rb29351896276fc>)
- [Memento Mori \(verso\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/previtali-andrea-rf8f027fcec3b58/memento-mori-verso-re0f02f72b9ec67>)
- [Mystic Marriage of St Catherine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/previtali-andrea-rf8f027fcec3b58/mystic-marriage-of-st-catherine-r2c5d7186d8d18f>)
- [Portrait of a Man \(recto\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/previtali-andrea-rf8f027fcec3b58/portrait-of-a-man-recto-ra162db7101de70>)
- [Submersion of Pharaoh in the Red Sea](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/previtali-andrea-rf8f027fcec3b58/submersion-of-pharaoh-in-the-red-sea-r5e4388ae91a7bd>)
- [Transfiguration](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/previtali-andrea-rf8f027fcec3b58/transfiguration-r0e024192cdab47>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)