# Adoration of the Shepherds [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BLOEMAERT, Abraham]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 287 x 229 cm ## Commentary Bloemaert settled in Utrecht in 1593, and within a decade began to adopt the mild classicism that Goltzius had brought back from Italy. Utrecht was the leading Catholic centre in the northern Netherlands during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and even during the seventeenth century, when Catholicism was suppressed, it continued to keep something of its Catholic character. Bloemaert, a devout Catholic, received commissions for large altarpieces from patrons in both the northern and southern Netherlands, and many of his more than 600 prints were intended for a Catholic clientele. ## Related artworks - [A Cottage \(recto\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Allegory of Winter]() - [Apollo and Diana Punishing Niobe by Killing her Children]() - [Charikleia and Theagenes]() - [Farmyard]() - [Farmyard with Dovecote]() - [Huntsman with Dogs]() - [Landscape with Peasants Resting]() - [Landscape with the Parable of the Tares among the Wheat]() - [Landscape with the Prophet Elijah in the Desert]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()