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unusual facts about ''Adoration of the Shepherds'' in London



Adoration of the shepherds

In Renaissance art, drawing on classical stories of Orpheus, the shepherds are sometimes depicted with musical instruments.

The Adoration of the Shepherds is based on the account in the Luke 2, not reported by any other Canonical Gospel, which states that an angel appeared to a group of shepherds, saying that Christ had been born in Bethlehem, followed by a crowd of angels saying Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth to men of good will.

Le Nain

Their Adoration of the Shepherds in London (National Gallery) is an exception, and many other civic and church works may have been lost in the French Revolution.

Via dei Georgofili Massacre

The tower and other buildings were destroyed and others damaged, including the Uffizi Gallery, where three paintings were irretrievably destroyed, including an Adoration of the Shepherds (1620) by Gerard van Honthorst.


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