  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  The Nativity (Ford Nativity)
  
  
  Artwork Date
  ca. between 1420 and 1430
  
  Artist
  Circle of Donatello
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  ca. 1386 - 1466
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  Italian
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Terracotta with traces of polychromy (vermillion, malachite, azurite, lead and white) and gilding
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 18 1/2 &Atilde;&#151; 14 &Atilde;&#151; 3 1/4 inches (47 &Atilde;&#151; 35.6 &Atilde;&#151; 8.3 cm)
  Framed: 32 1/2 &Atilde;&#151; 19 &Atilde;&#151; 3 1/4 inches (82.6 &Atilde;&#151; 48.3 &Atilde;&#151; 8.3 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Sculpture
  
  
  Department
  European Sculpture and Dec Arts
  
  
  Credit
  Bequest of Eleanor Clay Ford
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum&acirc;&#128;&#153;s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  F76.92
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
  
  
  
