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- known as a manger scene, crib, crèche (/krɛʃ/ or /kreɪʃ/), or in Italian presepio or presepe, or Bethlehem) is the special exhibition, particularly during...
- Forte do Presépio (formally Forte do Castelo do Senhor Santo Cristo do Presépio de Belém) is a fort located in Belém, Pará, Brazil. It was built in 1616...
- nineteenth century, Rodolfo Lanciani recalled that at Christmastime the presepio included a carved and painted figure of the sibyl pointing out to Augustus...
- Lanfranco Cesi Chapel tombs by Guglielmo della Porta Altar, confessio and Presepio (crib) sculptures by Arnolfo di Cambio, about 1290 Gian Lorenzo Bernini...
- around 1220, Francis celebrated Christmas by setting up the first known presepio or crèche (Nativity scene). His nativity imagery reflected the scene in...
- "A Roman Christmas Ritual: Micro-Architecture and the Theatre of the Presepio". Sacred Architecture. 16 (Fall 2009). The Institute for Sacred Architecture...
- Neapolitan presepio at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh...
- worked in 1285 and 1293 respectively. In this period he also worked on the presepio of Santa Maria Maggiore, on Santa Maria in Aracoeli, and on the monument...
- Institute in 1940. The first chapel was built in Belém in the Presépio Fort (Forte do Presépio) in 1616. It was a temporary structure and was dedicated to...
- contemporary critics; Bernini likened the structure to a "Christmas crib" (Presepio) In the middle of the 19th century, the site was sold by the surviving...