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...have had cover stories which discussed the way in which artists through the ages have depicted the real news of Christmas, the birth of Christ. There was Gerard David's painting of The Nativity in 1945 and, two years later, the Madonna and Child by Renaissance Painter Alesso Baldovinetti...
Piety and Patrons. Such a harmony of heart and hand belonged to an all but unknown painter named Alesso Baldovinetti, whose Madonna and Child appears on TIME'S cover this week. In any other age, Baldovinetti's talent might have made him the master of his day; while he lived he was known chiefly for his piety and craftsmanship. It was a time when painters and patrons, by common consent, chose God and His saints as the ultimate subject of art, and every studio apprentice planned on growing up to paint Him. It was an age in which...