Jennifer Sliwka
Dr Jennifer Sliwka is a specialist in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. She is Lecturer at King's College London, where she runs a collaborative MA with the National Gallery in “Christianity & the Arts.” Before joining King's she worked for 10 years as Curator at the National Gallery.
The Painter & The Preacher: Botticelli’s Mystic Nativity and Savonarola’s Sermons
By Jennifer SliwkaAt first glance, Mystic Nativity looks like any number of Renaissance representations of the birth of Christ. At second glance, the work becomes more unsettling and its “mystical” characteristics come to the fore
1500. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, London." />
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