# Adoration of the Shepherds [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BRONZINO, Agnolo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on wood, 65 x 47 cm ## Commentary According to Vasari, this small devotional painting was commissioned by Filippo di Averardo Salviati \(1513-1572\). It was most likely destined for a private chapel in the Salviati villa. This jewel-like painting displays the extreme refinement of execution and luxury of materials characteristic of Florentine Mannerism, with 'disegno' \(drawing\), sculptural modelling of forms, and enamel-like finish apparent in every detail. The entire upper half of the composition is a deep landscape of lakes and hills, above which stretches a vast blue sky that Bronzino painted in expensive lapis lazuli. To the right, an angel announcing the birth of Christ to a single shepherd hovers in the sky, and in the foreground five putti fly in celebration directly over the Nativity scene. ## Related artworks - [A Young Woman and Her Little Boy]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds \(detail\)]() - [Alessandro de' Medici]() - [Allegory of Happiness]() - [Altarpiece]() - [Altarpiece]() - [Angel of the Annunciation]() - [Cosimo I de' Medici as Orpheus]() - [Cosimo I de' Medici in Armour]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()