A Nativity from Naples: Presepe Sculpture of the Eighteenth Century Gifts allowing him to develop new

allowing him to develop new textures and innovative shapes

Lotus and Dragon presents sixty-seven masterpieces collected by John D

of this Renaissance masterpiece

capture these subtle gradations in tone and lush details with contemporary precision

he was also seduced by the visual splendors he encountered

A Nativity from Naples: Presepe Sculpture of the Eighteenth Century Gifts allowing him to develop newThis 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