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Four people with pale skin are gathered to our right in a landscape, their heads bowed down toward an infant who lies on a white cloth on the ground in this horizontal painting.
Venice: Bellini to Tintoretto

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Giorgione
artist Giorgione (Venetian, 1477/1478–1510)
date 1505/1510
medium Oil on panel
origin Italy
dimensions 90.8 × 110.5 cm
credit line Samuel H. Kress Collection
hall 10 Venice: Bellini to Tintoretto
rights public domain (CC0)
National Gallery of Art, Washington Full image

Also in Venice: Bellini to Tintoretto

Six women, eight men, two satyrs, and one child gather in pairs and trios in a loose row that spans the width of this nearly square painting. Giovanni Bellini and TitianThe Feast of the Gods Shown from the chest up, a clean-shaven young man with pale, peachy skin looks off to our left against a cloudy sky in this vertical portrait painting. Giovanni BelliniPortrait of a Young Man in Red A bearded and balding man with deeply tanned skin, dressed only in a strip of robin’s egg-blue fabric around his shoulders and hips, sits reading a book on a rock at the entrance to a craggy cave, in front of a landscape in this vertical painting. Giovanni BelliniSaint Jerome Reading A young, pale-skinned boy wearing a brilliant blue toga sits on a rock and holds a gold pitcher in a landscape in this vertical painting. Giovanni BelliniThe Infant Bacchus Shown from the waist up, a young woman embraces a baby in this vertical painting. Antonello da MessinaMadonna and Child A young woman sits with a small child standing on her lap on an ornate throne as a third person, tiny in scale, kneels and looks up from the lower left corner in this tall, narrow, vertical painting, which has an arched top. Carlo CrivelliMadonna and Child Enthroned with Donor Shown from the hips up against a landscape, a woman with pale skin, wearing a burgundy-red dress with marigold-orange sleeves and a sheer veil, sits facing our left in profile as she reads a small book in this vertical painting. Vittore CarpaccioThe Virgin Reading Close to us, a bearded, balding man leads a donkey carrying a woman and child to our right against a hilly landscape in this horizontal painting. Vittore CarpaccioThe Flight into Egypt

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