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GHIRLANDAIO, Domenico: Adoration of the Shepherds

🖼 Adoration of the Shepherds, 1483-85
Panel
167 × 167 cm
Florence, Italy

Warm light floods a humble stable where shepherds kneel before the newborn Christ, rendered with Ghirlandaio's characteristic detail and spatial clarity. This intimate yet monumental composition exemplifies Florentine Renaissance mastery, blending divine revelation with naturalistic observation of everyday figures and architecture.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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