# The Nativity, in Perugino

Perugino painted this in 1500–05, aged about 50. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> Mary and Joseph adore the newborn Christ Child in a simple shelter, with the ox nearby and a quiet landscape beyond.

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## The work

- Date: 1500–05
- Medium: Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas
- Dimensions: 26.2 × 46.3 cm (10 5/16 × 18 1/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.1025
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Perugino](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/perugino), Italian, c. 1450/55–1523

Pietro Vannucci took the name Perugino from Perugia, the chief city of his native Umbria, and trained in Florence, probably alongside Leonardo in Verrocchio’s studio.

5 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Perugino's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-perugino?hang=750) (8 works)
- [More Renaissance](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/renaissance?hang=750) (78 works)
- [15th-century Italy](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/15-italy?hang=750) (57 works)

## Get it

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