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Mystic Nativity
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Sandro Botticelli
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Mystic Nativity by Botticelli is the only work he ever signed, a strange and luminous scene of dancing angels, embracing figures, and fleeing devils painted near the end of his career.
Description
Description
This Mystic Nativity reproduction holds a scale decision at its centre: the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child are painted larger than every figure around them, a deliberate break from the correct perspective that Botticelli had mastered decades earlier. Standing before the canvas, the eye reads the Holy Family first, then works outward to the dancing angels and the fleeing devils below, exactly as the disproportion intends.
About Mystic Nativity Reproduction
Mary kneels over the Child beneath a thatched shelter, the ox and ass behind her, Joseph seated to one side in quiet withdrawal. Above them a golden dome opens in the sky, and twelve angels in robes of red, white, and green, standing for charity, faith, and hope, turn in a ring beneath it, each holding an olive branch. Shepherds and three crowned figures, read as the Magi, kneel at either side, while in the foreground three angels embrace three men who carry scrolls inscribed with words of peace. Small devils scatter into cracks in the rock, several impaled on their own spears, a note of violence rare in the painted world of Botticelli. The picture is the only work he ever signed, and the Greek inscription above the scene ties it to the Book of Revelation and to the political turmoil in Italy around the year 1500.
By this point in his career the serene classicism of his mythological scenes had given way to something more anxious, painted as younger artists were drawing attention away from him in Florence. The result sat largely unknown for roughly three centuries before its rediscovery and its eventual entry into the National Gallery in London in 1878.
The hand-painted reproduction
Our hand-painted oil painting reproduction is built by trained artists working layer by layer from the original composition, matching the jewel tones of the robes and the gold of the heavenly dome stroke by stroke rather than through any mechanical process. Painted on artist-grade canvas, it is a hand-painted replica in the oldest sense, pigment built up in the same sequence Botticelli himself would have followed, with the texture of the paint left visible rather than smoothed away. It is a picture that rewards a collector drawn to religious intensity and unusual history as much as to decorative calm, and it holds a wall in a study, a stairwell, or any room where a visitor is meant to pause and look twice.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, not a printed copy
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Arrives stretched and gallery-ready to hang
- Certificate of authenticity included
- 90 day returns with a full refund or a free replacement, no restocking fee
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