  About the Artwork
  
  
  This panel of the Nativity was made for the main choir chapel window in the cathedral of Cortona in Italy. The inscription below the scene QVE GEVIT ADORAVIT can be translated as “She worships him whom she bore.” The French immigrant Marcillat was responsible for the last great revival of monumental stained glass painting in Italy; Giorgio Vasari included Marcillat’s biography in his famous lives of Italian artists. The museum’s panel and its companion, Adoration of the Magi (Victoria and Albert Museum, London), are remarkably well preserved since they were removed from the church in the nineteenth century.
  
  
  Title
  The Nativity
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1516
  
  Artist
  Guillaume de Marcillat
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  between 1467 and 1470 - 1529
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events.
  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.
  
  
  
  French
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Stained glass and sanguine
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 106 1/2 × 70 3/8 × 7 5/8 inches (270.5 × 178.8 × 19.4 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Stained Glass
  
  
  Department
  European Sculpture and Dec Arts
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
  
  
  
  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’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—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  37.138
  
  
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