A light,
at the centre.
The Nativity scene sits within an opening in the architecture. Warm light highlights its figures and guides the eye across the work’s different planes.
Salvatore Troiano / Nativity scenes
Nativity scene2025.
A world that curls around itself.
A light within it.
Architecture, figures, light.Scroll to discover Nativity scenes / 2025
A journey through the details.
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01 / Inside the work
A landscape.
An embrace.
The Nativity finds its place within a web of houses, curves and passages.
The 2025 Nativity scene develops around a large open space. Its architecture seems to lean inward, while figures gather on the steps and around the edges of the composition.
Three details guide you through the photographs: the Nativity, the houses and openings, and the artist’s signature. Look closely at each one.
A light,
Houses that follow
a curve.
Elongated windows, leaning walls, narrow passages. Light surfaces meet blue lines and illuminated openings: the landscape takes shape one detail at a time.
A mark,
in the material.
In the lower part of the composition, the signature sits among the modelled surfaces. A small detail to observe alongside the traces of colour and the houses’ openings.
From sculpted form to finished artwork
Before the light,
the form.
02 / The studio journey
A world,
taking shape.
Images of the making show the work on the bench, its figures and the composition before its final finish. Choose a photograph and watch how the forms change.
01 / 04
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03 / Two moments of the work
The same form.
A different presence.
Drag to compare the modelled form with the coloured work. Two photographs of the same nativity scene, framed differently.
Drag to exploreTwo original photographs / 2025
04 / L’archivio fotografico
The artwork.
Its details.
8 photographs
2025 Nativity scene / Salvatore Troiano