Plaque with the Adoration of the Shepherds

1561 (Renaissance)

15 cm 20 cm 0.8 cm

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A classical temple defines the setting as the ancient Roman world and creates a "stage" for the scene of the Christ Child worshipped by Mary and the shepherds. In 16th-century stage design, classical buildings were thought the appropriate backdrop for plays about the lives of...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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