A Nativity from Naples: Presepe Sculpture of the Eighteenth Century Gifts and props to represent the

and props to represent the scene in the stable at Bethlehem after the birth of Christ

allowing him to develop new textures and innovative shapes

of this Renaissance masterpiece

Fleeing Paris during the upheavals of the Franco-Prussian War

This new guide also features previously unpublished images of the museum’s architecture by Louis I

A Nativity from Naples: Presepe Sculpture of the Eighteenth Century Gifts and props to represent theThis book accompanies the Kimbells exhibition A Nativity from Naples: Presepe Sculpture of the Eighteenth Century, which showcases a form of art that flourished in Naples in the eighteenth century and today seems almost inseparable from the celebration of Christmas the arrangement of movable figures, animals, and props to represent the scene in the stable at Bethlehem after the birth of Christ. The Kimbell presepe comprises some seventy eighteenth and