DUCCIO di Buoninsegna
(b. ca. 1255, Siena, d. 1319, Siena)

Nativity (detail)

1308-11
Tempera on wood
National Gallery of Art, Washington

The narrative is enriched with descriptive details, combining facts drawn from Luke and from the apocryphal gospels, such as the two midwives bathing the Child (probably Salome and Zelomi).




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