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Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

Can you guess how many figures are in our Neapolitan crèche?

This elaborate Nativity scene is only displayed for a few months every year in our Painting and Sculpture of Europe galleries. Learn more with editor Kit Shields.

On view in Gallery 203 through January 6, 2025.

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