The Nativity with Six Dominican Monks
1265/1274
Artist, Italian, active 1265 - 1280
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
miniature on vellum
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 46.8 x 36 cm (18 7/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1946.21.12
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Catalogue Raisonné
NGA Miniatures 1975, no. 3
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1946
New Acquisitions in the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946.
1949
Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, organized by the Waters Art Gallery at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 1949, no. 37, repro.
1953
Medieval and Renaissance Music Manuscripts, Toledo Museum of Art, OH, 1953, no. 37, repro.
Mediaeval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, Los Angeles County Museum, 1953, no. 32?, repro.
1956
Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, no cat.
1957
Illuminated Manuscript Pages from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1957-1958, no cat.
1963
Pages from Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the early XVIth centuries, University of California Art Gallery, Berkeley, 1963, no. 9, repro.
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1963.
1965
Italian panels & manuscripts from the thirteenth & fourteenth centuries in honor of Richard Offner, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 1965, no. 89, repro.
1969
Prints and Illuminations for the Christmas Season, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no cat.
1971
A Selection of X-Xv Century Medieval Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1971, no. 13.
1972
Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX, 1972.
1975
Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1975, no. 3, repro.
2009
Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 2009.
Bibliography
1975
National Gallery of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1975: no. 3.
1997
Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 16, color fig. 6.
Wikidata ID
Q64608094