Mystical Nativity (Filippo Lippi)

An oil-on-poplar-panel altarpiece painted around 1459 by Fra Filippo Lippi for the Magi Chapel in the newly built Palazzo Medici in Florence; the original now hangs in Berlin's Gemaldegalerie, with a copy remaining in the chapel. The painting reimagines the Nativity in a mountainous, wooded setting littered with cut timber rather than the traditional stable, and omits Joseph, angels and animals; instead Mary kneels in adoration of the infant Jesus on the ground, accompanied by the child John the Baptist and Saint Romuald, with God the Father and the Holy Spirit shown above. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/