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The artistic depictions of the Nativity or birth of Jesus, celebrated at Christmas, are based on the narratives in the Bible, in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and further elaborated by written, oral and artistic tradition. Christian art includes a great many representations of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child.
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By the end of the 19th century, new reports of miraculous images of Jesus had appeared and continue to receive significant attention, e.g. Secondo Pia's 1898 photograph of the Shroud of Turin, one of the most controversial artifacts in history, which during its May 2010 exposition it was visited by over 2 million people.
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This category is for the Nativity of Jesus in art. See also other sub-categories of the parent, like Category:Adoration of the Magi in art and Category:Adoration of the Shepherds in art. Here, "art" means the visual arts, not music or drama.
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The nativity accounts in the New Testament gospels of Matthew and Luke do not mention a date or time of year for the birth of Jesus. [a] Karl Rahner states that the authors of the gospels generally focused on theological elements rather than historical chronologies. [6] Both Luke and Matthew associate Jesus' birth with the time of Herod the ...
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