Editing Nativity scene (section)

===Static nativity scenes===
[[File:BarcelonaNativityScene.jpg|thumb|Outdoor nativity scene of life-sized figurines in [[Barcelona]] (2009)]]
Static nativity scenes depict Jesus, Mary, Joseph, farm animals, and sometimes other characters.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Burke |first=Jennifer |date=30 November 2021 |title=Christmas creches help Catholics enter into Nativity story |url=https://catholiccourier.com/articles/christmas-creches-help-catholics-enter-into-nativity-story/ |access-date=2022-08-12 |website=Catholic Courier |language=en-US}}</ref> While most home nativity scenes are packed away at Christmas or shortly thereafter, nativity scenes in churches usually remain on display until the feast of the [[Baptism of the Lord]].<ref name="Dues" />

The nativity scene may not accurately reflect gospel events. With no basis in the gospels, for example, the shepherds, the Magi, and the [[ox]] and [[asinus|ass]] may be displayed together at the manger. The art form can be traced back to eighteenth-century [[Naples|Naples, Italy]]. Neapolitan nativity scenes do not represent Bethlehem at the time of Jesus but the life of the Naples of 1700, during the [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon]] period. Families competed with each other to produce the most elegant and elaborate scenes and so, next to the [[Child Jesus]], to the [[Holy Family]] and the shepherds, were placed ladies and gentlemen of the nobility, representatives of the [[bourgeoisie]] of the time, vendors with their banks and miniatures of cheese, bread, sheep, pigs, ducks or geese, and typical figures of the time like Roma fortune tellers predicting the future, people playing cards, housewives doing shopping, dogs, cats and chickens.<ref>[http://citiesitaly.com/destinations/naples/the-neapolitan-crib "Neapolitan Crib: The crib and 1700s Naples."] {{webarchive|url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20131220062628/http://citiesitaly.com/destinations/naples/the-neapolitan-crib |date=20 December 2013 }}. CitiesItaly.com. Retrieved 18 December 2013.</ref>