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Mystic Nativity
c. 1500–1501 · Oil on canvas · The National Gallery, London
For Christmas · 25 December
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image 6.9×10 in on a 8×10 in sheet
The museum’s file supports 18×24 in at 250 dpi; a larger sheet would fall below our floor.
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All editionsAbout this painting
Twelve angels dance in a ring above the roof, each carrying an olive branch. Below, men wear the olive the angels bear. Across the top, in Greek, Sandro Botticelli writes himself into the end of the world, I, Alessandro, placing the painting in the troubles of Italy and the loosing of the devil for three and a half years, after which he will be chained. His only signed and dated painting, and the National Gallery reads the olive as its argument. At the bottom three pairs embrace, for Jennifer Sliwka the peace expected after Christ's return, while small devils slip into cracks in the rock.
Sources: The National Gallery, London, NG1034 · Rab Hatfield, 'Botticelli's Mystic Nativity, Savonarola and the Millennium,' Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 58 (1995), 88–113 · Jennifer Sliwka, 'The Painter & The Preacher,' The Brooklyn Rail, July 2021
And she brought forth her first born son and wrapped him up in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger: because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)