耶稣降生

Nativity is a panel painting of c. 1420 by the Early Netherlandish painter Robert Campin, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France. As often, the moment shown is the Adoration of the Shepherds. Harshly realistic, the Child Jesus and his parents are shown in poverty, the figures crowded in a small structure, with broken-down walls, and a thatched roof with a hole, the single space shared with animals. In this Campin abandons the traditional narrative.

The Virgin is presented as in her teens, Joseph as a much older man. Four angels hover above them, holding gifts. Two of them hold a scroll with lettering addressed to one of the midwives in the lower portion of the panel. It reads "Tangue puerum et sanabaris" (touch the child and you shall be healed), depicting the pseudepigraphical story of Salome, the doubting midwife, whose scroll here reads "I will believe only what I have touch…

摘自英文维基百科「Nativity (Campin)」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。