As Christmas nears, a lovely L15-E16thC nativity scene from a gold ring, Sleaford (Lincs): https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/642395 …pic.twitter.com/OpNPYMd2gl
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A L10thC Anglo-Saxon nativity scene in walrus Ivory: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/collections/antiquities/ivories/item-440815.aspx …pic.twitter.com/TdX0pxhNqx
The same scene in the L10thC Benedictional of St Æthelwold, BL Additional 49598, f. 15v: http://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/e-word-is-geworden-anglo-saxon.html …pic.twitter.com/z3FoA5vSQG
A very early Nativity scene, 1st half of 4thC, sarcophagus of Marcus Claudianus: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0_Sarcophage_de_Marcus_Claudianus_-_Pal._Massimo_alle_Terme.JPG …pic.twitter.com/xT5jj8nmNU
Another early Nativity scene, from the 4thC so-called 'Sarcophagus of Stilicho', Milan: https://memoriadei.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/the-ox-the-ass-and-the-passion-of-the-nativity/ …pic.twitter.com/DbMkB5Tn2a
The Nativity, by the 13thC Armenian manuscript illuminator T'oros Roslin, produced 1262: http://art.thewalters.org/detail/31378/nativity-3/ …pic.twitter.com/ZI69TyiHEJ
An ivory leaf from a diptych showing the Nativity, 1st half of 6thC, from Thessaly, Greece: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=60956&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/ok9fXKAHCb
@caitlinrgreen Is that a mid wife figure swaddling the baby, or perhaps the mother is twice depicted?
@BonyardB It's Salome from the apocryphal Gospel of James: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome_(Gospel_of_James) …
Thank you~I had not come across this side light on the Nativity.
my pleasure :)
Another Byzantine Nativity in the L10/E11thC so-called Menologion of Basil II: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Menologion_of_Basil_053.jpg …pic.twitter.com/VgvI7ahUhv
Another L6/E7thC Byzantine depiction of Adoration of the Magi, bound in Etchmiadzin Gospels http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/arts_of_armenia/highres/061.jpg …pic.twitter.com/OCWTRgqeMa
A much earlier Adoration of the Magi w/ rather happy camels; 4thC Roman sarcophagus, Rome: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adoration_magi_Pio_Christiano_Inv31459.jpg …pic.twitter.com/yvhgpvAWId
@caitlinrgreen Oh now this is a real treat Never seen this one before
@morangles It's great! I love the elf-like Magi too! :)
@caitlinrgreen here they are up to their elf cap ... giving out who is really Great Schmurf aka Schtroumpfpic.twitter.com/KtYUdwFNYf
@morangles I *love* that one--fabulous! Though now I won't be able to look at it without seeing smurfs!! :-/ :)
@lambandflag99 Oh, thank you---really nice of you to say! :)
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