Nativity scenes around the world have added a new accessory this Christmas season: the keffiyeh. In a controversial take on the classic holiday display, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus ...

Brian Kershisnik, a professional artist and BYU alumnus, visited the BYU Museum of Art on Monday, Dec. 4 to showcase and answer questions about his painting, “Nativity.” ...

In the general market of nativity sets, simplicity of this magnitude isn’t the norm. And yet, from a religious perspective, the scene of Jesus’ birth is one of ultimate humility.

Iraq or Syria: Freer Canteen Nativity Canteen with Adoration of the Christ Child, Syria or Northern Iraq, 1240-50, Collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution.

A Neapolitan Nativity scene at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh Pschemp via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Neapolitan Nativity scene at Santa Chiara in Naples Sailko via Wikimedia ...

Botticelli’s “Mystical Nativity” seeks to make the invisible visible. Sandro Botticelli, “Mystic Nativity,” 1500 Keywords: christmas birth of christ Scriptures & Art ...

In Jesus, our faith in God is tangible; it is no longer abstract. Another of this day’s traditional titles, “The Circumcision of Our Lord,” similarly expresses the human dimension of our faith.

By transposing the pivotal moment of Jesus’ birth to their own time and place, everyone in Greccio could find a place in that little stable, could truly be present in the Biblical moment. Through art, ...

Animals begin to appear in nativity art in the fourth century AD, possibly because biblical commentators at the time used Isaiah 3 as part of their anti-Jewish polemic to claim that animals ...

The Virgin Mary and Jesus inspired other forms of art and were featured in Henan opera. To localize the nativity scene for the Chinese people, the song “Jesus Baby” described the birth of Jesus in the ...

Art World Nativity Scene Sparks Debate as Vatican Withdraws Keffiyeh-Clad Baby Jesus The figure of the baby Jesus will be returned to the manger on December 24 but the keffiyeh may not be.