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The Nativity of Christ
Item no. 12
$2,185
The feast of Bethlehem itself: the cave, the manger, the star breaking through the rock.
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- Item number
- 12
- Material
- Paint and gilding on wooden panel
- Technique
- Hand-painted
- Dimensions
- Measurements on request
- Delivery
- Worldwide, tracked, dispatched within 48 hours
Shipping
We dispatch every order within 48 hours by EMS Express Mail Service, fully tracked. Your tracking number is sent by email on the day your parcel leaves Bethlehem.
Payment
We accept Visa, Mastercard and American Express. We confirm the total, including shipping, before any payment is taken, and if we cannot fulfil an order we refund it in full.
Returns and breakage
Each piece is packed by hand in Bethlehem, so we cannot accept returns or exchanges once an order has shipped. Should anything arrive damaged, email us a photograph at info@saint-michael-store.com and we will send a replacement.
About this piece
What it shows
The icon follows the Byzantine pattern for the Nativity. Mary rests at the mouth of the cave, the swaddled Child lies in the manger watched by the ox and the ass, angels and shepherds receive the news on the hillside, and Joseph sits apart, pondering. A single ray from heaven falls on the Child, and the Greek title above names the feast.
How it is made
Painted on a shaped panel whose edges are left irregular and dark, so the scene seems to open out of the wood. Each figure is built up from deep tones to light ones, the traditional way of painting faces in icons.
