# Adoration of the Shepherds [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LOTTO, Lorenzo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 147 x 166 cm ## Commentary Adoration of the Shepherds c. 1534 Oil on canvas, 147 x 166 cm Musei Civici d'Arte e Storia, Brescia This devotional image was probably painted for the wall of a private palace. The family resemblance between the physiognomically particularized shepherds suggests that they constitute donor portraits of brothers. The painting is signed but not dated. It is close stylistically to the Annunciation in Recanati and is usually dated to 1527-28. However, recently a later date \(c. 1534\) was proposed for both paintings. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Chastity detail\)]() - [Allegory of Chastity \("Maiden's Dream"\)]() - [Allegory of Virtue and Vice \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of Virtue and Vice]() - [Angel Annunciating]() - [Angel of the Annunciation]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Architect]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()