Adoration of the Shepherds

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Catalogue

Year
1580
Dimensions
28.6 × 41.2 cm (11 5/16 × 16 1/4 in.)

Artist

Caravaggio
Caravaggio

Painting

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

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