Nativity in an Initial H

Nativity in an Initial H

1430/40 · Veneto

Brush and gouache, heightened with gum arabic, gold leaf, and gold paint, over brush and black ink, on vellum

And she brought foorth her first borne sonne, and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no roome for them in the Inne.
LUKE 2:7 · KJV 1611 · READ THE CHAPTER

Art Institute of Chicago · Medieval (500–1500) · CC0 · Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

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