instance of: painting / depicts: Virgin Mary / genre: religious art / main subject: Nativity of Jesus

commissioned by: Paumgartner family (1) | Thomas Butts (1)

owned by: National Gallery of Armenia (1) | Robert Lehman (1)

movement: Flemish Primitives (2) | Early Renaissance (2) | High Renaissance (2) | Baroque (1) | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1) | Les Nabis (1) | German Renaissance (1)

based on: Golden Legend (1) | Saint George and the Dragon (1)

artist: Parmigianino (2) | anonymous (2) | Albrecht Dürer (1) | Sandro Botticelli (1) | Piero della Francesca (1) | Bramantino (1) | Cima da Conegliano (1) | Antonio da Correggio (1) | Duccio di Buoninsegna (1) | Giovanni Bellini (1) | Paul Gauguin (1) | William Blake (1) | Caravaggio (1) | Robert Campin (1) | Hans Memling (1) | Lattanzio Gambara (1) | Joos van Cleve (1) | Paolo Uccello (1)

material used: oil paint (25) | wood (13) | tempera (11) | panel (10) | canvas (6) | gold leaf (3) | fir wood (2) | oak (2) | gold (1) | silver (1)

collection: National Museum in Warsaw (5) | National Gallery (3) | Bavarian State Painting Collections (3) | Uffizi Gallery (3) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | National Gallery of Art (2) | Alte Pinakothek (1) | Florence Cathedral (1) | Gallerie dell'Accademia (1) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (1) | J. Paul Getty Museum (1) | Galleria Estense (1) | San Martino (1) | Basilica of San Domenico (1) | Carnegie Museum of Art (1) | Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (1) | Calvet Museum (Avignon) (1) | Doria Pamphilj Gallery (1)

location: National Museum in Warsaw (3) | National Gallery (3) | Uffizi Gallery (3) | Munich (2) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | National Gallery of Art (2) | storage (2) | Armenia (1) | Getty Center (1) | Alte Pinakothek (1) | Neue Pinakothek (1) | Florence Cathedral (1) | Gallerie dell'Accademia (1) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (1) | Galleria Estense (1) | San Martino (1) | Basilica of San Domenico (1) | Carnegie Museum of Art (1)

part of: Polyptych of the Main Chapel of the Cathedral of Viseu (1)

country of origin: Italy (3)

exhibition history: Exposition des primitifs français (2) | Sienese and Florentine Wood Panels (1) | Mirabilis (1)

published in: European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (1) | A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 3, Sienese and Central Italian Schools (1)

fabrication method: chiaroscuro (2)