The Nativity in painting

6 paintings by 6 painters, 1470 to 1566. Each is printed from the holding museum's own photograph of the original.

The Nativity: the third joyful mystery of the Rosary

• The Nativity, with God the Father Surrounded by Angels and CherubimFrancesco di Giorgio Martinic. 1470 · National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• The Nativity at NightGeertgen tot Sint JansPossibly about 1490 · The National Gallery, London
• Mystic NativitySandro Botticellic. 1500–1501 · The National Gallery, London
• The NativityLorenzo Lotto1523 · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The Census at BethlehemPieter Bruegel the Elder1566 · Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
• The NativityPiero della Francescaearly 1480s · The National Gallery, London