# The Nativity, in Renaissance

Giorgio Ghisi made this in 1553, aged 33. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> The inscriptions praise Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, emphasizing the great joys and inevitable sorrows that she is to endure in witnessing her son's life and death. After spending about five years in Rome, Ghisi left Italy around 1550 for Antwerp, the major commercial center in the Netherlands.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1553
- Medium: engraving
- Dimensions: Overall: 67.5 x 45.6 cm (26 9/16 x 17 15/16 in.); Part 1: 32.9 x 45 cm (12 15/16 x 17 11/16 in.); Part 2: 34 x 45.6 cm (13 3/8 x 17 15/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1986.233
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Giorgio Ghisi](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/giorgio-ghisi), Italian, 1520–1582

Ghisi was a Mantuan engraver who worked in Antwerp for the publisher Hieronymus Cock, engraving large plates after Raphael’s Vatican frescoes, and later in France.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

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