The Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds
Nicoletto da Modena
early 16th century
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 15 15/16 x 12 in. (40.5 x 30.5 cm) plate: 13 3/8 x 8 11/16 in. (34 x 22 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 1929
Accession Number
29.44.18
Tags
NativityAdoration of the Shepherds
About the Artist
Nicoletto da Modena
Nicoletto da Modena was an Italian engraver active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, one of the most prolific and stylistically eclectic printmakers of the early Italian Renaissance. The details of his biography remain uncertain — his precise birth and death dates are unknown, and he is identified primarily through the body of prints that bear his name or monogram. He appears to...