Adoration of the Shepherds

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Title Adoration of the Shepherds

Date 1525–1550

Medium Tempera on panel

Dimensions Overall: 29 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. (74.9 x 54.6 cm)
Framed: 40 7/16 × 34 1/8 × 3 in. (102.7 × 86.7 × 7.6 cm)

Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Henry R. Hope, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 62.172

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The Florentine painter Naldini trained for eight years with the Mannerist painter Jacopo Pontormo. Like his teacher, Naldini’s work is characterized by dramatic figural groups and an emphasis on strong color. The influence of Andrea del Sarto, another Mannerist whose work is displayed to the right, can also be detected in Naldini’s paintings. In this portrayal of the shepherds adoring the Christ child, the figures appear oddly detached from each other, but Naldini has arranged the figures’ arms and staffs to lead the viewer’s eye around the composition in a circular direction.

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Possible attribution Giovanni Battista Naldini (Italian, ca. 1537–ca. 1591)

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"Adoration of the Shepherds | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2024. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=62.172