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  2. Nativity of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    The Nativity or birth of Jesus Christ is found in the biblical gospels of Matthew and Luke.The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in Roman-controlled Judea, that his mother, Mary, was engaged to a man named Joseph, who was descended from King David and was not his biological father, and that his birth was caused by divine intervention.

  3. Nativity of Jesus in art - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. William Blake drew and painted illustrations for John Milton's nativity ode On the Morning of Christ's Nativity between 1803 and 1815. A total of 16 illustrations are extant: two sets of six watercolours each, and an additional four drawings in pencil. The dating of the sets is unknown, as is Blake's intended sequence for the illustrations.

  5. Adoration of the Shepherds - Wikipedia

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    The adoration is an episode in the nativity narrative of the Gospel of Luke.Shepherds are watching their flocks by night, apparently near Bethlehem, when an angel appears to announce the good news that "today in the City of David a Saviour has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord". [1]

  6. Life of Christ in art - Wikipedia

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    Codex Aureus of Echternach, 11th-century Ottonian gospel book, with some 60 scenes, including many parables; St. Albans Psalter, cycle of 40 images, mostly full-page. The Nativity story has 7 scenes, and from the Annunciation to the Return from Egypt takes 13. Eadwine Psalter, English manuscript of the mid-12th century, the prefatory cycle now ...

  7. Category:Nativity of Jesus in art - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity - Wikipedia

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    The Overthrow of Apollo and the Pagan Gods (1809), one of William Blake's illustrations of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity is a nativity ode written by John Milton in 1629 and published in his Poems of Mr. John Milton. The poem describes Christ's Incarnation and his overthrow of earthly and pagan powers.

  9. Luke 2 - Wikipedia

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    The line is the opening part of the Greater Doxology, and as such is important in the main rites of the Christian church. The angels then return to heaven and the shepherds go into Bethlehem to see for themselves and find Joseph and Mary and the infant Jesus. They then "...spread the word..." about the angels and Jesus, then return to their flocks.

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