The Nativity (Q60516442)

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genre: religious art (Q2864737)
artist: Jaume Ferrer II (Q11927277)
collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
main subject: Nativity of Jesus (Q51628)
part of: The Annunciation and The Nativity (Q60516426)
depicts: Christ Child (Q942467)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)

catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.660.2

information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog

description: This painting is believed to be a remaining component of a six-panel altarpiece. The large central panel is now preserved in the Museu National d’Art de Catalunya in Barcelona. Ferrer collaborated with the painter Pere Garcia de Benavarri on this commission. Spanish works like these often feature elaborate treatment of the gold background, evident here in the exuberant raised decoration (called

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