PIETRO DA RIMINI
(active 1324-1338 in Rimini)

The Nativity

1325-30
Tempera on panel, 20 x 16 cm
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

The iconography of this small panel, in which the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Nativity, and the Bathing of the Infant Christ are all shown within the same picture space, finds its source in Byzantine art.