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Andrea Mantegna: The Adoration of the Shepherds The Nativity in 25 Artworks The Adoration of the Shepherds The Adoration of the Shepherds, centre panel of the Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, c. 1474–76; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Painting Adoration of the Shepherds by Giorgione shows Mary, Joseph, and shepherds gathered around the infant Jesus at the entrance of a rocky cave, with a landscape in the background.
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Andrea Mantegna: The Adoration of the Shepherds The Adoration of the Shepherds, tempera on canvas by Andrea Mantegna, shortly after 1450; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Adoration shepherds

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Adoration shepherds, as a theme in art, depiction of shepherds paying homage to the newborn Christ, an event described in The Gospel According to Luke. It is related to the older but less frequently represented annunciation to the shepherds, which shows the same shepherds in the fields receiving from an angel news of the miraculous birth. The adoration of the shepherds was never treated as a separate theme in the East and it was not...

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