Explaining The Bible on Instagram: "The “Adoration of the Christ Child” (ca. 1515), painted by a follower of the Netherlandish artist Jan Joest of Kalkar, is an oil-on-wood panel depicting a nighttime Nativity scene inspired by the visionary account of Saint Bridget of Sweden from 1372. In this intimate composition, now held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the young Virgin Mary with flowing hair kneels in reverence beside the naked infant Jesus, who radiates a divine, ineffable light that ill