The Adoration of the Shepherds
Medium
Etching
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Accession Number
27.78.2(153)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *The Adoration of the Shepherds*, a captivating etching attributed to Giovanni Jacopo Car after designs by the Mannerist master Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Mariaola). This print depicts the biblical Nativity scene, where humble shepherds gather in reverence around the infant Christ, accompanied by the Virgin Mary, Joseph, and animals in a moment of divine humility and wonder. Parmigianino, a key figure of the 16th-century Mannerist movement, was renowned for his elegant, figures and graceful compositions, which infuse religious subjects with a refined, almost ethereal beauty. Etch...
About the Artist
Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) · 1500–1565
Italian, Parma or Verona ca. 1500/1505–1565 Krakow (?)