The Nativity

The Nativity

c. 1485–90 · Gerard David (Netherlandish, 1450/60–1523)

oil on wood panel

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

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