# Birth of Christ [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UCCELLO, Paolo]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Stained glass window ## Commentary Not long after the Monument to Sir John Hawkwood, the Opera del Duomo commissioned from Paolo the designs for three stained-glass windows \(the Resurrection, the Birth of Christ and the Annunciation destroyed in 1828\) for the oculi of the drum of the dome, as well as the decoration for the clockface on the inner façade of the Cathedral. In the cartoons for the stained-glass windows, we find quite clearly the influence of Ghiberti and Donatello. In the Birth of Christ the composition is constructed according to a basically old-fashioned pattern. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Magi \(Quarate predella, detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(Quarate predella\)]() - [An Angel \(detail\)]() - [Bernardino della Ciarda Thrown off his Horse \(detail\)]() - [Bernardino della Ciarda Thrown off his Horse \(detail\)]() - [Bernardino della Ciarda Thrown off his Horse \(detail\)]() - [Bernardino della Ciarda Thrown off his Horse]() - [Birth of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Birth of the Virgin]() - [Clock with Heads of Prophets]() - [Creation of Adam]() - [Creation of Eve and Original Sin \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()