The Nativity (Perugino)
1500–05 · Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas · Art Institute of Chicago
The whole painting, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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About this work
- Artist
- Pietro Perugino (c. 1450–1523)
- Year
- 1500–05
- Medium
- Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas
- Original size
- 26.2 × 46.3 cm
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Renaissance
Mary and Joseph kneel on either side of the Christ Child, who lies on a pink cloth in front of a simple timber shelter. Behind him, an ox and a donkey rest beside a wattle fence. Shepherds kneel and gesture at left and right, a lamb lies at the right edge, and a small angel flies overhead. Beyond the posts, a wide valley of soft blue hills and slender trees fades into a pale sky. Pietro Perugino, the Umbrian painter who later taught the young Raphael, painted it between 1500 and 1505. It is one of five small scenes that once formed the predella, the strip of pictures along the base of an altarpiece. Four of them are in the Art Institute of Chicago. The fifth, a Resurrection, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Turquoise and orange robes on a green meadow, against pale blue hills inside a painted gold border. A long, low picture for over a mantel, sideboard or bed at Christmas, paired with Raphael's Madonna of the Meadow; a dark wood frame echoes the border.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Renaissance painting
- Era
- 15th century (1500–05)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- grand
- Rooms
- dining room, living room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 18×12, 24×16 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard. See it to scale on your wall →
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — black suits the deep tones of this period; dark wood warms it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
- Restored in-house from the original painting, cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution
- Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
- Framed option: wood frame in black or dark wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size
- Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen
