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The traditional '''[[icon]]''' style of the '''[[Nativity|Nativity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ]]''' is from the 15th century, and attributed to [[Andrew Rublev|Rublev]]. It depicts the Creator of the Universe entering history as a newborn babe. The icon of the Nativity alsoshows also shows us the effect of this event on the natural life of the world.

The background is an inhospitable world, the world since our expulsion from [[Paradise]]. In the center of the Icon are [[Theotokos|Mary]], as the central figure depicted disproportionately large, resting at a cave, and Jesus as a baby in a manger wrapped in swaddling clothes. Around the Icon is much that deals with the [[Incarnation]] of Christ , they are explained below .