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Description: | Shepherds are shown worshipping the newly born Jesus, as described in the Gospel of St Luke. Divine light glows from the Christ child and beams down from the heavens. A skull on a sloping beam behind the group is a reminder of Christ's later death on the cross. The style of dramatic lighting and small figures was influenced by the paintings of the great Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn. Benjamin Cuyp often used subdued colours and gave his figures rather plain features, as in this picture. Cuyp spent his career in Dordrecht, in the Netherlands. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East art movement artists oil paintings art other cultures men women | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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