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The Adoration of the Shepherds
Andrea Mantegna (Italian, Isola di Carturo 1430/31–1506 Mantua)
shortly after 1450
- Medium
- Tempera on canvas, transferred from wood
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- Overall 15 3/4 x 21 7/8 in. (40 x 55.6 cm); painted surface 14 7/8 x 21 in. (37.8 x 53.3 cm)
- Culture
- Italian
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Paintings
- Credit line
- Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1932
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
