# The Nativity

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## Artwork

- Artist: [PIETRO DA RIMINI](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pietro-da-rimini-r76722443f03e24>)
- Date: 1301-1350
- Technique: Tempera on panel, 20 x 16 cm

## Commentary

The iconography of this small panel, in which the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Nativity, and the Bathing of the Infant Christ are all shown within the same picture space, finds its source in Byzantine art.

## Related artworks

- [Deposition from the Cross](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pietro-da-rimini-r76722443f03e24/deposition-from-the-cross-rfcb95dd7315d2c>)
- [The Nativity and Other Episodes from the Childhood of Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pietro-da-rimini-r76722443f03e24/the-nativity-and-other-episodes-from-the-childhood-of-christ-rb13cb9c93f4be1>)

## Attribution

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