Nativity imagery dominated Renaissance art. This first living Nativity scene – which was famously depicted by Italian Renaissance painter Giotto di Bondone in the Arena Chapel of Padua ...

Artist Beshoy Zaraa describes the tradition of painting the Christian story of the nativity of Jesus in Egyptian art to ...

But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the ...

Hughes, a literary giant of the Harlem Renaissance, originally wrote “Black Nativity” in 1961 as a retelling of the story of Jesus’ birth through the lens of Black culture, infusing it with ...

“Black Nativity” is a cherished cultural tradition to some and completely unknown to others. But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the ...