Annunciation to the shepherds
- Annunciation to the shepherds
The scene stems from the Gospel of
St.
Luke. On the night of Christ's birth, an angel appeared to a group of shepherds who were watching their flock in Bethlehem and told them that the Savior was born. This story gave artists the opportunity to depict a nocturnal scene. In the
Baroncelli Chapel at
Santa Croce, Florence (1332-1338), by
Taddeo Gaddi, shepherds are awakened by an angel whose bright light illuminates the nocturnal landscape. Jacopo Bassano also used the angel as the source of light in his 1555-1560
Annunciation (Washington, National Gallery), an unusual rendition in that the shepherds are a family group with a woman milking a cow on the right. One of the men shields his eyes from the angel's light. In 1416, the
Limbourg brothers depicted the scene in
Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (fol. 48r; Chantilly, Musée Condé) with a whole chorus of musical angels appearing to the shepherds to add a celebratory mood to the event.
Historical dictionary of Renaissance art.
Lilian H. Zirpolo.
2008.
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