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Adoration of the Shepherds

The Adoration of the Shepherds, in the Nativity of Jesus in art, is a scene in which shepherds are near witnesses to the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, arriving soon after the actual birth. It is often combined in art with the Adoration of the Magi, in which case it is typically just referred to by the latter title. The Annunciation to the Shepherds, when they are summoned by an angel to the scene, is a distinct subject.

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Adoration of the Shepherds (Signorelli)

Adoration of the Shepherds is a 1496 oil painting by Luca Signorelli, originally painted on panel but later transferred to canvas. It was probably the second painting the artist produced in Città di Castello after Adoration of the Magi. Originally in the church of San Francesco in the town, it went on the art market after that church was secularised. After several owners it was acquired by the National Gallery, London in 1882, where it still hangs.

Adoration of the Shepherds with Saints Nazarius and CelsusW
Adoration of the Shepherds with Saints Nazarius and Celsus

Adoration of the Shepherds with Saints Nazarius and Celsus is a 1540 oil on canvas painting by Moretto da Brescia in the church of Santi Nazaro e Celso in Brescia. As its title suggests, it shows Nazarius and Celsus, patron saints of the church.

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Adoration of the Shepherds (Bronzino)

Adoration of the Shepherds is a 1539-1540 oil on poplar panel painting by Bronzino, now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary

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Nativity (Campin)

Nativity is a 1420 panel painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Robert Campin. As often, the moment shown is the adoration of the shepherds. Harshly realistic, the Child Jesus and his parents are shown in poverty, the figures crowded in a small structure, with broken-down walls, and a thatched roof with a hole, the single space shared with animals. In this Campin abandons the traditional narrative.

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Adoration of the Shepherds (Caravaggio)

The Adoration of the Shepherds is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi, commonly known as Caravaggio. The Adoration of the Shepherds measures 83.07 x 123.62 in. It was commissioned for the Capuchin Franciscans and was painted in Messina for the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in 1609 just one year before the artist's death. It is now in the Interdisciplinary Regional Museum of Messina.

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Adoration of the Shepherds (Cariani)

The Adoration of the Shepherds by Giovanni Cariani is a panel painting of about 1515-1517, now in the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom. The painting is somewhat damaged, and also seems to have been subject to significant changes of intention during the process of painting. It was one of the large group of paintings bought by Charles I of England from the collection of Vincenzo II, last of the Gonzaga Dukes of Mantua in 1628. The painted surface measures 73.6 cm × 120.3 cm.

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Coronation of the Virgin Altarpiece

The Coronation of the Virgin Altarpiece is a c.1534 five panel work by Moretto da Brescia. Its central panel and upper panel are still in the church of Santi Nazaro e Celso in Brescia, whilst the two upper roundels and predella are in the same church's rectory.

Nativity (Correggio)W
Nativity (Correggio)

The Nativity is a painting finished around 1529–1530 by the Italian painter Antonio da Correggio. It is housed in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden.

Adoration of the Shepherds (Lucas Cranach the Elder)W
Adoration of the Shepherds (Lucas Cranach the Elder)

The Adoration of the Shepherds, is a c. 1515–1520 oil on panel painting of the Nativity by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden.

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Adoration of the Shepherds (Crivelli)

Adoration of the Shepherds is a c. 1480 tempera and gold on panel painting by Carlo Crivelli. It is now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Strasbourg, for which it was acquired in Florence by Wilhelm von Bode. Its inventory number is 171. Art historians are uncertain about the dating of the painting, and propositions have ranged from 1470 to 1491.

Adoration of the Shepherds (David)W
Adoration of the Shepherds (David)

The Adoration of the Shepherds or the Nativity is a 1490 painting by the Flemish painter Gerard David. It is now held in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.

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The Adoration of the Shepherds (de la Tour)

The Adoration of the Shepherds is a 1644 oil on canvas painting by Georges de La Tour, now in the Louvre Museum. It was bought it in 1926.

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Adoration of the Shepherds (Domenichino)

The painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds of c. 1607–10 by the Italian 17th century master Domenichino has been in the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh since 1971, and was previously in the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.

The Adoration of the Shepherds (El Greco, Bucharest)W
The Adoration of the Shepherds (El Greco, Bucharest)

The Adoration of the Shepherds is a painting of the traditional subject which was painted by El Greco in 1596. It is in the European painting collection of the National Museum of Art of Romania. This unusually tall painting is a work in the group of equally tall paintings which the artist made as part of his 1596 commission known as the Doña María de Aragón Altarpiece for the Colegio de Dona Maria de Aragón in a building that is now the location of Palacio del Senado in Madrid. El Greco's signature, in Greek, may be seen on the paper in the lower left corner.

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The Adoration of the Shepherds (El Greco, Madrid)

The Adoration of the Shepherds is a painting of the traditional subject which was painted during the last year of El Greco's life. The painting is a work which the artist made to hang over his own tomb in the church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo. El Greco's signature, in Greek, may be seen in the lower left corner.

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Adoration of the Shepherds (Giordano)

Adoration of the Shepherds is a painting by Luca Giordano, executed c. 1688, and commissioned for the queen's apartments in the Palacio Real in Madrid. It was produced at the same time as the same artist's Marriage of the Virgin, intended for the same palace. Both works are now in the Louvre in Paris.

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Adoration of the Shepherds (Giorgione)

The Adoration of the Shepherds, sometimes still known as the Allendale Nativity, after a former owner, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Giorgione, completed in about 1505 to 1510. The attribution is now usual, although not universal; the usual other view is that it is an early Titian. It is certainly a Venetian painting of that period. It is displayed in the National Gallery of Art of Washington, D.C., United States.

Nativity (Giovanni Lanfranco)W
Nativity (Giovanni Lanfranco)

The Nativity or Adoration of the Shepherds) is a painting finished around 1606-1607 by the Italian painter Giovanni Lanfranco. It is housed in the Alnwick Castle, England.

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Adoration of the Shepherds (Le Nain)

The Adoration of the Shepherds by the Le Nain Brothers is in the National Gallery in London. The painting dates from about 1640, and is relatively unusual as a religious subject or history painting in their oeuvre; they are best known for genre painting, especially groups of peasants. As with most of the works of Antoine, Louis and Mathieu (1607–1677) Le Nain, it is not possible to establish which brother, or combination of brothers, painted it. This painting is unsigned, but when they signed their works, from 1641 to 1648, it was simply as Lenain.

Adoration of the Shepherds (Lorenzo di Credi)W
Adoration of the Shepherds (Lorenzo di Credi)

The Adoration of the Shepherds is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo di Credi, dating to about 1510. It is displayed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence.

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Adoration of the Shepherds (Lotto)

Adoration of the Shepherds is a c.1534 oil on canvas painting by Lorenzo Lotto, signed "Lottus" and now in the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia. Its dating is based on stylistic motifs such as the naturalistic details similar to those of the Recanati Annunciation. It also shows similarities to nativities painted around the same time by Girolamo Savoldo, whom Lotto met in Venice. It seems to have been commissioned by Braccio II and Sforza Baglioni, two noblemen from Perugia, who were the models for the two shepherds. They may have met the artist in the Marche during a pilgrimage to Loreto. A ring on Mary's right hand is probably an allusion to the Holy Ring, a relic in Perugia Cathedral, which supports the idea that the work was produced for that city. This provenance is solely based on an account from 1824 by the art-dealer who that year sold it to Paolo Tosio, a count from Brescia.

Adoration of the Shepherds (Mantegna)W
Adoration of the Shepherds (Mantegna)

The Adoration of the Shepherds is a painting by the northern Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna, dated to c. 1450-1451.

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Adoration of the Shepherds (Parmigianino)

Adoration of the Shepherds is an oil on panel painting by Parmigianino, executed c. 1521-1522, now in a private collection. The work was rediscovered by Gould in 1992 and a year later was exhibited at the Kunsthaus Zürich. Like Nativity, it was identified as a work of the artist's youth, whilst he was still strongly influenced by Correggio, an influence which only faded after 1524.

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Portinari Altarpiece

The Portinari Altarpiece or Portinari Triptych is an oil on wood triptych painting by the Flemish painter Hugo van der Goes, commissioned by Tommaso Portinari, representing the Adoration of the Shepherds. It measures 253 x 304 cm, and is now in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy. This altarpiece is filled with figures and religious symbols. Of all the late fifteenth century Flemish artworks, this painting is said to be the most studied.

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Adoration of the Shepherds (Poussin)

The Adoration of the Shepherds is a painting of 1633–34 by the French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), now in the National Gallery, London. It is in oils on canvas, and measures 97.2 by 74 centimetres. Unusually for Poussin, it is signed "N. Pusin.fe" ["fecit"] on the stone at lower right. By 1637, soon after it was painted, it was owned by Cardinal Gian Carlo de' Medici (1611–1663), the second son of Grand Duke Cosimo II of Tuscany and was placed in his villa outside Florence.

Adoration of the Shepherds (Ribera, Castellammare di Stabia)W
Adoration of the Shepherds (Ribera, Castellammare di Stabia)

Adoration of the Shepherds is a c.1650 painting by the Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera. It is now on display in the left transept of Santissima Maria Assunta and San Catello Co-Cathedral in Castellammare di Stabia.

Adoration of the Shepherds (Rubens)W
Adoration of the Shepherds (Rubens)

Adoration of the Shepherds is an oil on canvas painting dating to 1608, painted by Peter Paul Rubens. It was rediscovered at the start of the twentieth century by the art historian Roberto Longhi, who identified it with the painting recorded as La notte in 1607.

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Adoration of the Shepherds (Santafede)

Adoration of the Shepherds or Nativity is a 1612-1614 oil on canvas painting by Fabrizio Santafede during his mature period for Maria Orsini's chapel in the Gesù e Maria church in Naples. It is now in the National Museum of Capodimonte.

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Adoration of the Shepherds (Savoldo)

Adoration of the Shepherds is a c.1540 oil on canvas painting by Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo, now in the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia. It was one of the painter's last works and he also produced variants on it, including one in San Giobbe in Venice.

Adoration of the Shepherds (Stom)W
Adoration of the Shepherds (Stom)

Adoration of the Shepherds may refer to several works by the Dutch artist Matthias Stom:Adoration of the Shepherds, c.1640-1645, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples Adoration of the Shepherds, now in the Palazzo Madama, Turin Adoration of the Shepherds, now in the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Adoration of the Shepherds, now in the Musée d'Arts de Nantes, France

Adoration of the Shepherds (Hugo van der Goes)W
Adoration of the Shepherds (Hugo van der Goes)

Adoration of the Shepherds is a late oil painting by Hugo van der Goes, now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Unusually large for the painter, it is less well-known than his Portinari Triptych or his Monforte Altarpiece on the same subject. He produced it before renouncing his worldly life and becoming a lay brother at Rouge-Cloître Abbey near Brussels, a daughter house of the Windesheim Congregation in the strict tradition of the Brethren of the Common Life, part of the wider devotio moderna movement.

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The Adoration of the Shepherds (Paulus van Vianen)

The Adoration of the Shepherds is a 1607 silver plaquette by the Dutch Golden Age sculptor Paulus van Vianen in the collection of the Rijksmuseum.