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Technical Details
  • Title
    Adoration of the Shepherds
  • Author
    Barnaba da Modena (Barnaba Agocchiari)
  • Year
    Late 1370s
  • Dimensions
    cm 57 x 50
  • Inventory
    6020
  • Room
    III
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Barnaba da Modena was an artist from Modena and then Emilia, who also worked in southern Piedmont and Liguria. This work belongs to the artist’s Ligurian period and shows the Adoration of Christ by the shepherds, with St. Joseph separated from the family group, seated on a saddle. The angular drapery of the Madonna shows the importance Barnaba da Modena gives to the Byzantine tradition while developing a naturalistic style seen not only in the sleeping sheep who sleep but those eating grass.

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