174 CHRISTMAS THROUGH THE EYES OF PAINTERS ART CREDITS Cover, pages 8-9: Adoration of the Shepherds(c. 1640), The Le Nain Brothers (17th c.), oil on canvas, 43 × 54,6 in., The National Gallery, London. © Bridgeman images. Page 6: Holy Night (c. 1495), Gerard David, oil on oak, 22 x 16 in., Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, Vienna. © akg-images / Erich Lessing. Page 13: Prophet with star and Virgin with Child (1st half of the 3rd c.), mural on stucco, 16 x 11 in., Catacombs of Priscilla, Rome. © akg-images / Fototeca Gilardi. Pages 17, 23: Gospel scenes (6th c.), icon painted on the cover of a reliquary, egg tempera on wood, Vatican Museums, Chapel of St. Peter Martyr, Rome. © Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Pages 27, 33: Nativity (11th c.), fresco, church of the monastery in Eski Gümüs in Göreme, Cappadocia. © akg-images / De Agostini Picture Lib. / G. Dagli Orti Page 30: Nativity, detail of an icon of the Deisis and the twelve feasts (11th c.), egg tempera onwood, monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai. ©akg-images / De Agostini Picture Library. Page 31: Nativity, byzantine icon (15th c.), egg tempera on wood, State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg. © akg-images / Album. Page 37: The Nativity (2nd half of the 9th c.), Gospel book produced for Archbishop Ebbon, Latin ms 9386 fo 64, illumination on parchment, 10 x 9 in., Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. © BnF, Paris. Page 41: The Nativity (9th or early 10th c.), fresco, Church of Santa Maria Foris Portas, Castelseprio (Varese). © akg-images / De Agostini Picture Lib. / A. De Gregorio. Page 44: The Adoration of the Magi (9th or early 10th c.), fresco, Church of Santa Maria Foris Portas, Castelseprio (Varese). © akg-images / Pietro Baguzzi. Pages 47, 49: The Nativity (13th c.), detail from the frontispiece of the altar in Sagàs, paint on wood, Diocesan Museum, Solsona (Lerida). © akg-images / De Agostini Picture Lib. / G. Dagli Orti. Pages 53, 55, 57: The Nativity and the Annunciation to the Shepherds (c. 1100), Sacramentary of Saint-Étienne de Limoges, Latin ms 9438, fo 19 vo, illumination on parchment, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. © BnF, Paris. Page 61: The Nativity (12th or 13th c.), Gospel book of Vaspurakan, ms 404 fo 1 vo, illumination on parchment, Armenian Museum, Isfahan. © Bridgeman Images. Pages 65, 67: The Nativity (1304–1306), Giotto (c. 1266–1377), fresco, Scrovegni chapel, Padua. © akg-images / Cameraphoto. Pages 71, 77: The Nativity, Anonymous from Meuse, 15th c., tempera on oak, 13 x 8 in., Mayer van der Bergh Museum, Antwerp. © akg-images / Erich Lessing. Page 74: The Nativity (late 14th or early 15th c.), Conrad von Soest (1370–1422), tempera on wood, 30 x 36 in., Stadtkirche, Bad Wildungen. © akg-images / Erich Lessing. Page 75a: The Holy Family with Angels (c. 1410–1415), Master of the Middle Rhine Region, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. © BPK, Berlin, Dist. RMN-GP / Jörg P. Anders
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