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The Greccio nativity scene of St. Francis according to Giotto
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The first nativity scene in history? The one set up in 1223 by St. Francis in Greccio, near Rieti. Exactly 800 years have passed since that event. Here's how Giotto interpreted it in a celebrated fresco in Assisi's Upper Basilica.
In one of the scenes frescoed by Giotto in the cycle of the Stories of St. Francis that adorns the walls of the Upper Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, one can see the saint, kneeling in front of a kind of box, with a child in his hands: this is the episode of the Greccio crib, one of the most famous of the Assisi cycle. According to what the texts that have transmitted to us the life of St. Francis tell us, that is, first of all, the Life before Thomas of Celano (the oldest: it was composed between 1228 and 1230) and the Legenda maior of St. Francis (the biography of the Poor Man of Assisi written in Latin by Bonaventure of Bagnoregio at the commission of the Order of Friars Minor, and then approved by the general chapter of Pisa in 1263), the saint, on Christmas night of 1223, is said to have staged a representation of the Nativity for the inha
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Assisi to Greccio: On description St. Francis Christmas Trail
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| Alternative names | Giotto | ||
| Description | Italian painter, architect, sculptor, muralist and designer | ||
| Date of birth/death | 1267 / 1276 / 1266 | 8 January 1337 | |
| Location of birth/death | Colle di Vespignano, part of Vicchio, Tuscany | Florence | |
| Work location | Florence, Padua, Rome, Naples, Assisi | ||
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Institution of the Crib at Greccio
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Legend of St Francis
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Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi