“Imagine
the Lord, for the first time, from darkness, and stranded
Immensely
in distance, recognising Himself in the Son
Of
Man: homeless, going out to Himself in a homeless one.”—Joseph Brodsky,
"Nativity Poem" (translated by Seamus Heaney) in Christmas at The New Yorker
(2003)
This terracotta Nativity scene is
part of the display in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, Germany. It was
crafted by Neapolitan sculptor Giuseppe Sanmartino (1720-1793).
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