Title The Nativity : the Christmas crèche at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Loretta Hines Howard Collection / photographed by Lee Boltin. Commentary by Olga Raggio.

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Online access
Available Online. Open Access via Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications.

Item Status

Edition	[1st ed.].
Description	62 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Summary	"In this beautiful Christmas book, Christ's Nativity is told in words of the King James Bible and illustrated with full color photographs of the eighteenth-century Neapolitan crèche presented to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1964 by Loretta Hines Howard."--Excerpt from jacket fold.
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Subject	Howard, Loretta Hines -- Art collections.
	Howard, Loretta Hines.
	Art museums.
	Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
	Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
	Crèches (Nativity scenes) -- History -- Italy -- Naples -- 18th century.
	Decorative arts -- Italy -- Naples -- History -- 18th century.
	Decorative arts.
	Italy -- Naples.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Crèches (Nativity scenes) -- Private collections -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Crèches (Nativity scenes) -- Private collections.
	New York (State) -- New York.
	Crèches (Nativity scenes)
Chronological Term	1700-1799
Genre/Form	Catalogs.
	History.
	Catalogs.
Added Author	Raggio, Olga, 1926-2009.
	Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Added Title	Loretta Hines Howard Collection.
Other Form:	Online version: Nativity. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [1969] (OCoLC)633027666