The Nativity;

Robert Campin was a leading figure in the city of Tournai during the early fifteenth century and scholars now generally agree that he is the artist known as the Master of Flémalle. This representation of The Nativity is innovative in that it includes three different events in one scene: the Mother and Child in the barn, the legend of the midwives, and the adoration of the shepherds. In a dilapidated wooden stable with a thatched roof, May kneels and looks lovingly down at the child at her feet shimmering with light. Joseph is portrayed as an old man in a red robe genuflecting with a candle in... Mehr ...