This painting is perhaps the most realistic nativity scene ever painted. There are no halos, the woman has apparently been through a real birth and is partly dismissive of the child which lies on the ground. There is nothing divine about the mother and her child lies on a thin covering of cloth on the ground. Only the surroundings and the people external to the nativity are applauding a holy birth. It's perhaps an allegory of the overwhelming belief of others in a birth that was nothing more than normal. It perhaps portrays the false start of Christianity. Poor Yeshua.

Very unfortunately the painting has never, and may never be, recovered. It is suspected that the theft must be laid at the gates of the Mafia.