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7 Bible
73 New Testament
73B birth and youth of Christ

73B1 Story of the birth of Christ (Luke 2:1-20)

            73B11 a census is ordered by Caesar Augustus
            73B12 journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem
            73B13 Mary, Joseph and the new-born Christ (Nativity)
            73B14 annunciation of Christ's birth to the shepherds (and/or shepherdesses) at night; a host of singing angels in the air (9)
            73B15 miracles at Christ's birth
            73B81(+3) Holy Family (alone), 'Trinitas terrestris' (+ angel(s)) (6)

Govert Flinck
The annunciation to the shepherds
1639

Pieter van Laer
Annunciation to the shepherds

Cornelis Saftleven
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
c. 1670

Jacopo Bassano
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
c. 1555/60

Rembrandt
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
c. 1640-42


Rembrandt
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
c. 1640-42

Philips Wouwerman
The Annunciation to the shepherds

Rembrandt
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
c. 1656-57

Rembrandt
The Annunciation to the Shepherds
c. 1655-56