Title: Christmas illuminated
Description: From the outset, Christian theology was occupied with the question about the Son of God born as a child, and particularly with the birth of Jesus. Not until the late Middle Ages did artistic depictions begin to suggest the familiar atmosphere with which we associate Christmas celebrations today. During that time, artists transferred the event of God's incarnation into the environs of the affluent European city-states, and they placed their conceptualizations of nature into surroundings not unlike our own.<BR>This exhibition presents the Christmas story as observed in European book illumination from around the fifteenth/sixteenth centuries in German, Flemish, French, and Italian manuscripts. They belong to the most beautiful and valuable codices of this epoch held by the Bavarian State Library, and present illustrations of the Christmas story from the annunciation to the flight to Egypt.<BR><BR>Exhibition: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany (17.11.2017-08.02.2018). Previously at Museum of the Bible, Washington D.C., USA.
Subjects: Art, Exhibitions, Nativity, Manuscripts, Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts, European Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval Manuscripts, Christmas in art, Christmas, Exhibition catalogs, Illumination of books and manuscripts, German Manuscripts, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Places: Germany, Munich, Washington (D.C.)
People: Jesus Christ
Time periods: 15th century