Inscription: This picture, I, Alessandro, painted at the end of the year 1500, in the troubles of Italy, in the half time after the time, during the fulfillment of the eleventh of John, in the second Woe of the Apocalypse, when the devil was loosed for three and the half years. Afterwards he shall be chained according to the twelfth and we shall see him (trodden down) as in this picture.
Mystical Nativity is the only Botticelli's painting which is signed and dated by the artist. Botticelli doesn't represent the motive of Adoration, but describes the scenery of birth from Apocalypse whose coming was so vigorously preached by Savonarola.
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