Wednesday, 20 December 2017

Look closer at nativity paintings – and see visions of apocalypse

an article by Jonathan Jones published in the Guardian in 2016

Christmas cards are full of cutesy depictions of nativity scenes, but Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and Caravaggio remind us of the death in Jesus’s story

Foretells the end of days … a detail from Sandro Botticelli’s Mystic Nativity (1500).
Foretells the end of days … a detail from Sandro Botticelli’s Mystic Nativity (1500). Photograph: National Gallery, London
One of my favourite works by Botticelli. Reminds me that I have not been to see it for some time.

Read the article for yourself – there are more pictures


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