The Nativity Triptych: Gloria in Excelsis Deo presents the birth of Christ within a triptych of pointed Gothic arches, drawing on the visual language of mediaeval altarpieces and illuminated manuscripts. At its centre, the Virgin Mary and Joseph kneel either side of the manger, watched over by an ox and a donkey and a pair of lambs, beneath a starlit sky rendered in deep lapis blue and burnished gold. Choirs of angels gather in the arch above, their wings picked out in muted rose and grey, while a scroll below them carries the words “Gloria in Excelsis Deo”, Glory to God in the Highest. Two further companies of angels occupy the side arches, and shepherds and elders stand at both flanks of the scene, hands raised in prayer. Gilded columns and borders of trailing acanthus leaves frame the composition, set against a field of gold stars on deep blue.
The piece belongs to the Spiritual Collection, a range of AI-generated artworks created in homage to the gold-ground panel painting and stained glass of the mediaeval and Gothic Revival periods. Rather than reproducing a historic original, it reinterprets the conventions of the mediaeval triptych altarpiece, hierarchical figures, gold-leaf backgrounds, pointed Gothic arches, for a contemporary devotional image.