A painting of the Nativity dating to the early 1500s has been saved from leaving the UK after it was acquired by National Museums NI.
The work, painted around 1515 in Rome by the Italian artist Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi, will go on public display at the Ulster Museum in Belfast next year following a fundraising campaign.
The piece, depicting the Nativity scene at night, is one of only a few by Peruzzi to survive outside Italy and the only one in the UK.
