they're 100 miles apart, Nazareth was "northern Judea" and Bethlehem "southern"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
when does the romantic version first start showing up? And where?
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Replying to @classicpoodle
idk -- my sense is that the "Nativity scene" as we know it started in art from the European Middle Ages
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Replying to @arthur_affect @classicpoodle
wanting to cram all the cool images from the Bible into one painting
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a lot of these traditions that aren't in the Bible come from artwork, like there being "three Wise Men"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @classicpoodle
it doesn't say how many guys there were but it does name three gifts, "gold, frankincense, and myrrh"
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so they made up a tradition of painting three specific guys, each one holding one of the three gifts
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and they probably were meant to all come from the same place but in artwork they were drawn as three different races
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and made into the "Three Kings" of different countries to make the scene more interesting
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and artwork would have been commissioned by the church or the nobility?
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yeah, to present the story in a way illiterate people could easily understand
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