A brief PowerPoint with artwork representing the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

1. The Nativity of Mary
Artistic Representations

2. Domenico Beccafumi (1484-1551)
"Birth of Mary" (detail, oil painting), 1540-1543; Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena.

3. Master of Joachim and Anne: Birth of the Virgin, c. 1450, oakwood

4. Vittore Carpaccio, 1504-1508

5. Nativity of the Virgin, 14th c. sculpture from Toul, France. Musée lorrain, Nancy

6. Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337), Cappella Scrovegni a Padova,
Life of the Virgin, The Birth of the Virgin

7. Francisco de Zurbarán, 1629, Princeton University

8. Detail of a stained-glass window at the Cathedral of Meaux, 1875

9. Birth of the Virgin with other Scenes from her Life, tempera and gold leaf on panel painting
by the Master of the Osservanza Triptych, ca. 1428-39

10. 'The Birth of the Virgin', fresco by Juan de Borgoña, Cathedral of Toledo, c. 1495