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Definitions and fundamental questions
When the nativity scene begins, what a scene of the Nativity conveys and what the world born of that night is made of, read in their sources before defining anything.
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Nativity-scene art and practice has its own history, language and documentary memory. Knowing them makes it possible to understand better what we do, where our ways of representing come from and which questions remain open.
This block gathers the cultural foundations of the Manual: definitions, bibliographies, traditions, associations and debates that help to place the nativity scene as an artistic practice and a shared heritage.
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Who is who in the nativity scene
The roles of those involved in a nativity figure —who conceives the form, who reproduces it, what the law recognises—, named by their definition and not by habit.
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Bibliographies of nativity-scene art and practice
Three catalogues for knowing the memory of the nativity-scene tradition, broadening the artistic language and documenting the world represented.
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