The Nativity

In the free, non-perspectival placing of the figures on the smooth empty background, Bonanno seems to take up the daring formulations of the bronze doors of San Zeno, which are also recalled by certain typological and drawing details. Different, and steeped in Eastern sweetness, are the complacent symmetries and the soft, mellow modelling, as if just issued from beneath the artist's caressing hand.