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Sandro BotticelliMystical Nativity-c.1500 National Gallery in London

Sandro BotticelliMystical Nativity-c.1500National Gallery in London

Sandro BotticelliMystical Nativity-c.1500 National Gallery in London

Sandro Botticelli (1445 – 1510)Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston

Lorenzo Lotto (1480–1556)La Madonna con Bambino The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Sandro Botticelli (1445 – 1510)Columbia Museum of Art

Charles le Brun (1619 – 1690)Adoration of the Shepherds 1689; Musée du Louvre, Paris

Holy Monastery of St.Paul, Mount Athos 

Pietro Cavallini Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere Roma 1296-1300

Pietro Cavallini Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere Roma 1296-1300

Matthias Stomer (1600 ca. – 1650) Natività Matthias Stomer Natività c. 1640 Monreale, Chiesa dei Cappuccini

Paolo Uccello The adoration of the magi 1435

Modern Romanian icons

Giotto, di Bondone (1266-1337)Basilica di San Francesco, Assisi, Italy

Andrey Rublev, 1405,in the Moscow KremlinRozdestvo Hristovo

Duccio di Buoninsegna The nativity 13th century

Jacopo Torriti The nativity of our Lord Christ 1296 Santa Maria Maggiore Rome

Mosaic in Byzantine style, Palermo, 1150

Giovanni della Robbia (1469-1529 circa) figlio di Andrea, Santuario della Verna SantaMaria

Bernardino di Betto, called Pinturicchio (1454–1513) Adoration of the child (Cappella Baglioni, Spello)

Bernardino di Betto, called Pinturicchio (1454–1513) Adoration of the child (Cappella Baglioni, Spello)

Bernardino di Betto, called Pinturicchio (1454–1513) Adoration of the child (Cappella Baglioni, Spello)

Bernardino di Betto, called Pinturicchio (1454–1513)

Sound: Christmas Songs – Romanian corals

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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanuhttps://plus.google.com/+SandaMichaela

2011