# Adoration of the Shepherds [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BASSANO, Jacopo]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 97 x 142 cm ## Commentary Adoration of the Shepherds c. 1550 Oil on canvas, 97 x 142 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice From his earliest works, Bassano was particularly fond of the theme of devoted shepherds with their flocks, and other realist pastoral scenes. In this painting mannerism and realism encounter one another in singularly harmonious rapport. The refined, attenuated forms of the figures may derive from Mannerism, and the palette and the taste for ruins from Northern Europe, probably through Pieter Aertsen, but what makes the picture datable around 1550 is the loving, closely observed naturalism with which the animals have been depicted, a characteristic common to an entire group of Bassano's paintings. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Kings \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Kings]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Garden of Eden]() - [God speaks to Noah after the Flood]() - [Great Market \(detail\)]() - [Great Market]() - [Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()