From Cathy Oakes
Regarding the link between the Passion and the manger, there is a group
of images of the Nativity in which Christ lies clearly on an altar
rather than ina manger. The examples I'm familiar with date from the
tenth century but I'm pretty sure the trend continues into the twelfth.
I'm a lurker, by the way - an iconographer recently working on aspects
of Marian imagery.
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