Milton’s Quiet Nativity Ode - New Passage
Literature
"Paintings of the Nativity sometimes please the beholder because of the domesticity, the familiarity provided by the setting. A barn or a rough shed, a child being gazed upon by inarticulate grown-ups, animals surprised by the commotion, people of many kinds—rich
and poor, sophisticated and simple: here a painter could find opportunity to engage many kinds of interest and to use all his skill in juxtapositions of color, in painting faces, clothing, and the characteristic stance of different kinds of men."
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