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  • fuckhaha [any,none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    the period this painting is set in, if you look at the costumes and buildings and such, everybody had em

    This is just some baby

    • culdrought [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      From the wiki:

      The three panels depict a narrative in which Mary is visited by the archangel Gabriel; she gives birth in a stable, and she presents the infant at the temple. The left wing shows the Annunciation, the center depicts the Adoration of the Magi after Christ's birth, and the Presentation in the Temple appears on the right wing.

      • fuckhaha [any,none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I was joking about it not actually being a nativity scene but that is my best guess at the logic behind the crucifix, biblical scenes were almost always updated in this way to some extent and often very conciously included Christian iconography of the day to reinforce that modernity