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| Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (Giandomenico d'Imola) The Annunciation 1726 oil on canvas Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Nicolò dell'Abate The Annunciation ca. 1552-58 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Ludovico Carracci The Annunciation 1584 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Paolo Farinati The Annunciation before 1606 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Girolamo Marchesi (Girolamo da Cotignola) The Nativity ca. 1522-24 oil on panel (predella fragment) Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Antonio Semino The Nativity ca. 1530 oil on canvas Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista, San Domenico Savona |
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| Camillo Boccaccino The Nativity before 1546 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Giovanni Francesco Penni Adoration of the Child ca. 1515 oil on panel Palazzo Lanfranchi, Matera |
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| Giovanni Francesco Penni Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1510-20 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Francesco Curradi Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1590-91 oil on canvas Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Alessandro Algardi Adoration of the Shepherds before 1654 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Vincenzo Foppa Adoration of the Magi ca. 1500 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Polidoro da Caravaggio Adoration of the Magi ca. 1520-22 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Giovanni Bernardo Carboni Adoration of the Magi before 1680 oil on canvas Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, Genoa |
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| attributed to Domenico Alfani after Raphael Virgin and Child (The Northbrook Madonna) ca. 1505 oil on panel Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| Gerard David Virgin and Child ca. 1506-10 oil on panel (altarpiece fragment) Palazzo Bianco, Genoa |
from The Madonna of Carthagena
And indeed she is a sweetly
Lovely image, most discreetly
Veiled in gauzy stars and roses,
With an iridescent cloak,
Made, at least so one supposes,
Noticing its changing sheen –
Ruby sometimes, sometimes green –
Of the wings of humming-birds.
From the hem of it, there poke
Little shoes of gold and blue,
Sewn with gems – not one or two,
But a toe-full flashing through
The beholder's head as though
He were watching the rainbow.
On her head a crown is set
Where great moons of carven jet
Are in fact no jet at all,
But black opals; and the fall
Of her wimple wrought of lace
Half obscures her wondrous face.
– Amy Lowell (1925)