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The Nativity

The newborn Christ lies in the manger as Mary rests nearby and the angels bring tidings of great joy to the watching shepherds (Luke 2). A tempera icon by the Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev.

The Nativity by Andrei Rublev depicting Luke 2:6
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Depicted passages

Luke 2:6-14Primary
Portrait of Andrei Rublev

About Andrei Rublev

1360-1430 · Russian

Andrei Rublev was a medieval Russian iconographer canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. Surviving works attributed to him include the Hospitality of Abraham (the icon often called the "Old Testament Trinity") and the festal tier of the Annunciation Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin (c. 1405).

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