Robert Campin
Nativity is a 1420 panel painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Robert Campin. 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.