The Nativity with God the Father and the Holy Ghost  1740

[br] In this altarpiece, Pittoni has depicted both the Nativity (the birth of Christ and his adoration) and the Trinity (God the Father, Christ and the Holy Spirit) – an unusual, but not unique, combination. It was painted around 1740, though we don‘t know for which church it was commissioned. Saint Joseph is slumped in a chair sleeping deeply, while the Virgin Mary kne...