Saturday, December 28, 2019

Elaborate Italian Crèche

This manger scene is part of the large nativity arrayed around a 22-foot Christmas tree in Kirkwood Hall at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. The Italian crèche figures, or presepio, were elaborately carved in Naples during the 17th and 18th centuries and surround the base of the tree.
 

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