Tag: jesus

  • Nativity Scenes: from the largest to the smallest.

    The first Nativity scene is attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi in 1223. He hired Giovanni Vellita to build a manger scene out of straw in a cave in Greccio, Italy.  In the seventeenth century, the baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini created an elaborate nativity scene for the Barberini family of Pope Urban VIII.  By the beginning of the eighteenth…