Nativity Paintings If you enjoy setting up a nativity scene during the Christmas season, then artwork of the story is a natural choice for your living room.

All reproductions are hand painted by talented artists. Weyden used bold blacks and red. This sublime Nativity is part of the cycle of religious narrative paintings on the Life of Christ that Tintoretto executed for the Scuola Grande di S Rocco in Venice between 1578 and 1581.

The theme of the Nativity, and the related narration of the Adoration of the Shepherds, was a favoured topic of Renaissance patrons and painters, useful year-round and in just about any religious or domestic context. Bladelin Triptych By Rogier Van Der Weyden This three-part painting from 1445 takes a much bolder approach to The Nativity. The particular panel shown here, which is tempera on wood, is now at the  Louvre  in Paris. The earliest known Nativity image, a 2nd- or 3rd-century painting in the Catacomb of Priscilla, has the prophet on the left pointing to the star while Mary sits on the right with the Christ Child on her lap. Here are ten of these paintings, held in collections worldwide, painted by Tuscan artists from the 13th through 15th centuries. The Nativity  (36x48 cm), by Italian painter Guido da Siena, was created in the 1270s as part of a twelve-part polyptych depicting scenes from the life of Christ. (See the description and photograph at the website of the Catacombs of Priscilla.) The painting is of The Nativity in the Lower Church of San Francesco d’Assisi. The The Nativity painting originally painted by Jacob Jordaens can be yours today.

Consider one of our nativity paintings that features a more abstract scene of the birth of Jesus and hang it up over your fireplace during Christmastime.