Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Natività con i profeti Isaia ed Ezechiele (The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel) 1308–1311 Tempera on single poplar panel, 48 × 86.8 × 7.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This painting was part of…
Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) The Holy Family with Shepherds 1616 Oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 106.7 x 76.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Working in Antwerp, the commercial center of the Spanish Netherlands, Jordaens catered to an international audience…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Adorazione dei pastori (The Adoration of the Shepherds) c.1539–1540 Oil on poplar, 65.7 × 47.1 x 3 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Mosè difende le figlie di Jetro (Moses Defends the Daughters of Jethro) 1523–1527 Oil on canvas, 160 x 117 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Giacobbe con il gregge di Labano (Jacob with the Flock of Laban) 1638 Oil on canvas, 132 x 118 cm National Gallery, London Jacob sits next to a stream, holding his shepherd’s staff, surrounded by his flock. Resting…
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Diana ed Endimione (Diana and Endymion) c.1675–1680 Oil on canvas, 149.2 x 164 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) Natività (Nativity) c.1420–1422 Tempera and gold leaf on panel, 72.1 × 42.6 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles In this painting Gentile da Fabriano combined several different devotional and biblical subjects: the Madonna of Humility, the Nativity, and the…
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Adorazione dei pastori (Adoration of the shepherds) c.1534 Oil on canvas, 147 x 166 cm Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia
Signorelli, Luca (c.1445-1523) Adorazione dei pastori (The Adoration of the Shepherds) c.1496 Oil on wood, 215 × 170.2 cm National Gallery, London The focus of this large altarpiece is the tiny infant Christ – he lies on the ground, his head supported…
Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Natività (The Nativity) early 1480s Oil on poplar, 124.4 x 122.6 cm National Gallery, London Piero della Francesca depicted Christ’s Nativity as a miraculous vision materialising on top of a hill near his hometown in rural Tuscany. He…