Map of the Manual of Nativity-Scene Art and Practice
Here you can see the structure of the Manual and browse the blocks, sections and chapters added to the site so far. The map will grow as the editorial revision advances.
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The world of nativity-scene art and practice
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Definitions and fundamental questions
- When it begins: «Making the memory present with the eyes of the body»
- What it conveys: «Recognising what is already known»
- What it covers: «A world around a theme»
- The word: «Belenismo, in two languages»
- The definition: «Making the Nativity present so as to move»
- Who decides: «The first page»
- The dossier: «The Real Decreto 481/2022: the declaration that demotes what it declares»
- Whom a nativity scene represents
- Who is who in the nativity scene
- Bibliographies of nativity-scene art and practice
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Definitions and fundamental questions
- The art of composing nativity scenes
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The Nativity cycle: scenes and characters
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In search of the biblical nativity scene
- More than a nativity scene
- What makes a biblical nativity scene authentic?
- The power of references in the art of the biblical nativity scene
- Putting references into practice: from fact to detail
- Understanding the script: shaping with the words of the narrative
- What kind of truth a biblical nativity scene can reach
- 25 December: the zero point in creating biblical nativity scenes
- Jesus in his time
- The anthropology of the figures
- The scenes of the infancy cycle of Jesus
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Research on first-century clothing
- Researching first-century clothing to create biblical figures
- Working framework — from evidence to sculptural decision
- What we know and do not know about first-century clothing
- The material evidence — textiles, leather, footwear and tools
- Where the evidence survives and where the scenes are set
- Written sources and ancient iconography
- What clothing is for
- From raw material to garment
- Where the raw material comes from
- The material before the figure
- The gesture before the fibre
- Wool as a separated fibre
- From possible material to representable garment
- Bible quotations: the apparatus of the block
- From fibre to garment: representable textile work
- Colour as a manufactured appearance
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In search of the biblical nativity scene
