It is always Christmas with a Neapolitan crib that remembers the allure of a cosmopolitan town and the realistic description of people, shepherds, rich bourgeois men and nobles. The taste for the strong baroque shapes, the rococo fancies, the neoclassical elegance and the realism. It is the tale of love for the representation of Divine Child's Nativity, but also the "history" of crib complexes and artists who made them. This tale is told by the documents and the descriptions of foreign travellers who were enchanted by an artistic expression so particular in its line. But it is also the chronicle of the passion to collect the 
characters of this sacred representation loved by all people and passed down by the reports of Newspapers, regularly confirmed by documents. The iconographic work, in white/black and colour, is carefully commented so that the Reader can understand the great importance of this Art that is always modern.

Gennaro Borrelli
He is certainly the best judge of crib art. He organized the "Exhibition on the history of Neapolitan crib" in 1969 and the "Exhibition of the wooden sculpture in Neapolitan crib" wanted by the town of Bologna. In 1986, at Christmas, he organized and managed "Noel 86 Paris" an exhibition of images of the "Grande Tradition de la crèche Napolitaine" wanted by the town of Paris.