The Nativity and the Adoration of the Shepherds
Nicoletto da Modena
c. 1512
Medium
Engraving in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
34.2 × 22.5 cm (13 1/2 × 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4376
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...