COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
MMA_.25.120.288
AMICA Library Year:
2000
Object Type:
Paintings
Creator Name:
Bartolo di Fredi
Creator Name:
Bartolo di Fredi
Creator Nationality:
European; Southern European; Italian
Creator Role:
Artist
Creator Dates/Places:
Italian [Sienese], active 1353, died 1410
Creator Name-CRT:
Bartolo di Fredi
Title:
The Adoration of the Shepherds
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
14th century
Creation Start Date:
1300
Creation End Date:
1399
Materials and Techniques:
Tempera on wood, gold ground, arched top
Classification Term:
Painting-Panel
Dimensions:
Overall: 69 1/8 x 45 1/8 in. (175.6 x 114.6 cm); Painted surface: 63 1/4 x 45 1/8 in. (160.7 x 114.6 cm)
AMICA Contributor:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location:
New York, New York, USA
ID Number:
25.120.288
Credit Line:
The Cloisters Collection, 1925
Context:
Once the central panel of an altarpiece, this painting simultaneously depicts the Adoration of the Christ Child and the Annunciation to the Shepherds, shown in the upper right. To create clear spatial relationships, the artist employed overlapping planes and daring, if naive, perspective-most evident in the projecting roof of the stable. The setting of the narrative combines the Byzantine tradition of representing the Adoration in a cave with the Western iconography of a stable. This panel may have been flanked by single panels depicting standing saints.
Related Image Identifier Link:
MMA_.cl25.120.288.R.tif
Initial Sort:
Bartolo di Fredi
The Adoration of the Shepherds
