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Christmas 2003: The Nativity

Image by DUCKMARX
The Nativity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ icon design attributed to Andrei Rublev

Christmas 2003, egg tempera (8" X 10.5")

You are welcome to download the cartoon for this icon.

Icons were used as teaching tools. Most of the notes placed on this icon are biblical quotes or paraphrasing.

(This was my first egg tempera and I fell in love with the medium when I saw the ultramarine. Maybe I should have toned it down, but the intensity of egg tempera colors amazes me.)

I've compiled a chronological collection of some Nativity of Jesus works of art into three timeframes:

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Please note, in response to flickr's Third-party image blocking I've moved my illustrated research notes to my blog, duckmarx: The Nativity
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1. 100-1499

2. 1500-1699

3. 1700-present


How old is the Nativity icon design?The Patriarch of Alexandria, Cyril I (404-430 A.D.), authorized the use of icons as a visual means for teaching Christian doctrines. I think one of these was the Nativity icon. If this is so it would mean that the Nativity icon design extends back to at least the 5th century (404-430). In her article Origins of Nativity Scenes for Christmas, Christine Nyholm reports that "Some scholars believe that the earliest Nativity scene dates back to 2nd century AD in the catacombs of St. Priscilla." Both my conjecture and Christine Nyholm's conjecture require independent validation.

I am a visitor here / I am not permanent

Image by _Madolan_
My least favorite picture taken of me, ever, is this one. Not just because I'm holding a baby (I'm staunchly, almost radically, childfree). Not just because I'm round and pudgy (I'm even rounder now yet I kind of like my big ol' body). It's that terrible haircut, self-snipped in the morning mirror, undyed, brown, short, unflattering. I hate it.

So tonight's photo was taken to show how much growth has happened since that awful summer picture. I have inches. I have red. It's a slow recovery process but time heals all bad haircuts. Overprocessed? Sure! But it relaxes my natural corkscrew curls into longer, gentler waves, and I'm grateful for the added inches.

Every day is a day closer to a kinder length.

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