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The Nativity at Night or Night Nativity is an Early Netherlandish painting of about 1490 by Geertgen tot Sint Jans in the National Gallery, London (NG 4081). It is a panel painting in oil on oak , measuring 34 × 25.3 cm., [1] though it has been cut down in size on all four sides.
Geertgen tot Sint Jans, The Nativity at Night, possibly about 1490. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
Geertgen depicted the Child Jesus as a light source on his painting Nativity at Night. Though van Mander calls him Geertgen tot Sint Jans, painter from Haarlem, indicating he was from Haarlem, it is possible that he was perhaps born in Leiden, then in the Burgundian Netherlands in the Holy Roman Empire, around the year 1465. [6]
The Crucifixion with Saint Jerome and Saint Dominic, and Scenes from the PassionNational Galleries of Scotland: National. The Nativity at Night by Geertgen tot Sint Jans (c.1460–c.1490), possibly about 1490, from The National Gallery, London.
Nativity at Night Geertgen tot Sint Jans 1490 Adoration of the Magi Geertgen tot Sint Jans 1490 Virgin and Child Geertgen tot Sint Jans 1487
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- Leiden, Netherlands
Dec 21, 2011 · Continuing with his series of favourite wintry artworks, Jonathan Jones feels a warm glow looking at the tender beauty of Geertgen tot Sint Jans's The Nativity at Night (c1490)...
In this small devotional painting Geertgen tot Sint Jans (‘little Gerard of the Brethren of Saint John’) does not show the baby in traditional swaddling clothes. Instead, the tiny naked child exudes rays of supernatural light which illuminate the night-time scene, one of the first realistically painted night scenes in Northern art.
