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BASSANO, Jacopo: Adoration of the Shepherds

🖼 Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1550
Oil on canvas
97 × 142 cm
Venice, Italy

Warm candlelight bathes humble shepherds kneeling before the infant Christ, rendered with intimate brushwork and earthy tones. Bassano revolutionized religious scenes by elevating peasant figures to spiritual dignity, establishing his signature style of nocturnal nativity scenes that influenced Baroque art.

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