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   Figure, Biblical, New Testament, Nativity
Works of Art (12)
Batrashil, 1534/35, Syria, Silk embroidery with metallic thread (14.137) 
 
Crib of the Infant Jesus, 15th century, South Netherlandish; Made in Brabant, Carved and polychromed oak, copper gilt, silver gilt, painted parchment, and silk embroidered with seed pearls, gold thread, tinsel, and translucent enamels (1974.121)  
 
Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection, 1300–1325, German; Made in Cologne (possibly), Rhine valley, silver gilt with translucent and opaque enamels (1980.366)  
 
Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary, Netherlandish Painter (possibly Goswijn van der Weyden), Oil on wood (1987.290.3a–p)  
 
Gift-Bearing Figures (from a Nativity Group), 18th century, Guatemalan, Wood, polychromed and gilded (64.164.176–.179) 
 
Icon with Christ "Overseer of All" and the Chorus of Saints, ca. 1300–1500, Byzantine, Steatite (63.68.1-13)  
 
Nativity Group with Angel, 18th century, Guatemalan, Wood, polychromed and gilded, with glass eyes and silver-gilt halos (64.164.168ab–.172) 
 
Nativity Scene, 18th century, Ecuadoran, with Hispano-Philippine ivory inserts, Bodies of wood, polychromed and gilded; faces and shoulders, ivory touched up with polychromy (64.164.172–.174) 
 
Rosary Bead, early 16th century, South Lowlands (Brabant), Boxwood (17.190.475)  
 
The Nativity (The Adoration of the Christ Child), ca. 1460, Zanobi Strozzi (Italian), Tempera on panel (24.22)
 
 
The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard, ca. 1510–15, Gerard David (Netherlandish), Oil on canvas, transferred from wood (49.7.20a–c)  
 
The Nativity, ca. 1435–40, Zanobi Strozzi (Italian); Fra Angelico (Italian), Tempera on panel (1983.490)  
 
Thematic Essays (4)