Popular imagery in a fifteenth-century Burgundian crèche

Author

Forsyth, William H.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Metropolitan Museum journal/Essays in honor of Helmut Nickel. 1989, Vol. 24, p. 117-126, 15 ill.

ISSN

0077-8958

Abstract (en)

On the iconography of a painted limestone crèche in the Metropolitan Museum, New York; suggests sources in Christmas liturgy and mystery plays.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400 -- Sculpture -- France
• Metropolitan Museum of Art||New York (NY, USA)
• Sculpture
• Jesus Christ: Nativity
• Liturgy
• Christmas
• Mystery plays
• Bourgogne (FRA)
• France
• 1400-1500
• Sources
• Crèches
• Christian iconography
• Iconography

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400 -- Sculpture -- France
• Metropolitan Museum of Art||New York (NY, USA)
• Sculpture
• Christ: Nativité
• Liturgie
• Noël
• Mystère religieux
• Bourgogne (FRA)
• France
• 1400-1500
• Sources
• Crèche
• Iconographie chrétienne
• Iconographie

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910101-00447172

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