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Description: | This painting shows the influence of Palma Vecchio, for whom Bonifazio worked as an assistant, while the pastoral landscape is reminiscent of Titian and Giorgione. The painting possesses typical Venetian characteristics such as richness of colour, and the unity of landscape and figures within it. The figures are arranged on a simple, stage-like space. Behind them, a road winds into the distance with figures, buildings and trees used as simple spatial markers to give recession. The Adoration of the Shepherds is not a common theme before 1480 in Western Europe (though it is common in Byzantine art). The Shepherds represent the first Jewish converts to Christianity, an apt subject in a period of religious fervour, paranoia and persecution at the approach of the Millennium. The ruins in the background relate to the Synagogue - the Old Testament of the Jews replaced by the New Testament of Christ. | Subjects: | religion (Adoration of the Shepherds) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Pitati, Bonifazio de` (Italian painter, 1487-1553) Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Licinio, Bernardino (Italian painter, ca.1489-ca.1565) Previously attributed to Palma, Jacopo, il vecchio (Italian painter, ca. 1479-1528) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9169... | Go to resource |
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