Shown from the waist up, four people surround a nude infant boy in this nighttime horizontal painting. All the people have pale skin. The pudgy baby has short brown hair and lies on a white cloth, holding the end of a translucent yellow cloth with one chubby hand. The largest person is Mary, who stands just right of center. Her hair is covered by a sheer white cloth, and she wears a lapis-blue robe over a muted rose-pink, long-sleeved dress. She holds her fingertips together over the child as she looks down at him. Two bearded men with gray hair stand to our left of Mary. The leftmost man…
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The Adoration of the Shepherds

Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo (Brescian, c. 1480 - 1548 or after)

1530s

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 84.5 x 119.7 cm (33 1/4 x 47 1/8 in.) ; framed: 110.8 x 146.5 x 7.6 cm (43 5/8 x 57 11/16 x 3 in.)
Culture
Brescian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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