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Nativity Scene Christmas Cards (on sale)
SKU: 9780735321960
RETAIL: 11.00
testPRICE: 7.70
PRICE: $7.70
Message: Merry Christmas
Giotto di Bondone
Giotto is known as a great master of the early Italian Renaissance---he made a great break with the medieval style of his teacher Cimabue, and he is known for observing nature and real people, and making the faces of his painted subjects very human and expressive.
How can anyone resist the gentle smile the Virgin gives the infant, the tender expressions of the adoring angels, and most of all, the sweet expressions of the ox and ass, even though they had to lend the child their manger!
This detail is from the Nativity fresco from the Scrovetgni (a.k.a. "Arena") Chapel, Padua. It was painted sometime between 1303 and 1310.
20 notecards, 21 envelopes Cards measure 3-1/2 x 5" ISBN 9780735321960
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