# Adoration of the Child

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## Artwork

- Artist: [PERINO DEL VAGA](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perino-del-vaga-r82d3bbdc0a51f0>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 274 x 221 cm

## Commentary

The style of Perino del Vaga, a Florentine Mannerist, differs sharply from that of Pontormo and Rosso, possibly because of his association with Raphael in Rome. Perino bridges, in fact, the gap between the Roman High Renaissance and the Mannerism, the dominant style of the middle and late Cinquecento. Perino&#39;s Adoration is a variant on the Nativity, although neither shed, manger, ox, ox, ass, nor shepherds are present. Perino&#39;s signature and the date 1534 appear on the foreshortened tablet in the foreground - a device borrowed from Albrecht Dürer.

## Related artworks

- [Alexander the Great Battles the Indian King Porus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perino-del-vaga-r82d3bbdc0a51f0/alexander-the-great-battles-the-indian-king-porus-rd6c5d96cdfb4b1>)
- [Ceiling decoration](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perino-del-vaga-r82d3bbdc0a51f0/ceiling-decoration-r1f8ba5dda4fa8a>)
- [General view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perino-del-vaga-r82d3bbdc0a51f0/general-view-r0a2c98f3b1bb45>)
- [Hope, Venus, and the Martyrdom of St Paul](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perino-del-vaga-r82d3bbdc0a51f0/hope-venus-and-the-martyrdom-of-st-paul-r7f0e1aeea95ce0>)
- [Jupiter Handing a Newborn Boy to Diana](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perino-del-vaga-r82d3bbdc0a51f0/jupiter-handing-a-newborn-boy-to-diana-rc166fbf8f99749>)
- [Lamentation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perino-del-vaga-r82d3bbdc0a51f0/lamentation-r557b53f629752e>)
- [North Façade of the Villa Doria](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perino-del-vaga-r82d3bbdc0a51f0/north-faade-of-the-villa-doria-re12b73aec55e9c>)
- [Shipwreck of Aeneas](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perino-del-vaga-r82d3bbdc0a51f0/shipwreck-of-aeneas-r785d24824d958f>)
- [Sketch for St John the Baptist Preaching](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perino-del-vaga-r82d3bbdc0a51f0/sketch-for-st-john-the-baptist-preaching-r676c7d84aef54e>)
- [Sketch for the Feast of Herod](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perino-del-vaga-r82d3bbdc0a51f0/sketch-for-the-feast-of-herod-r57b22232d53dd5>)
- [Sketch for The Visitation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perino-del-vaga-r82d3bbdc0a51f0/sketch-for-the-visitation-r217b2dcfde911c>)
- [Tarquinius Priscus Founds the Temple of Jupiter on the Campidoglio](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perino-del-vaga-r82d3bbdc0a51f0/tarquinius-priscus-founds-the-temple-of-jupiter-on-the-campidoglio-re3ffbf613bea25>)

## Attribution

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